Chapter 106

I realized during my daily visits that contact with the outside world was exactly her biggest fear. She had no one to fight for to find her sanity, so her relapses were so frequent in the last days of treatment. She got a new father "my father -, a new mother "Alice" and a sister, me. And I also realized, after long days of living with my adoptive sister, that love was also the "cure" for her biggest problems. Now, seeing her with her short hair and her movements and speaking almost fully recovered, I just have the feeling of a duty accomplished.

My small group, titled the Suicide Team, still remains firm and healthy. Candice recently said on one of our Skype calls that she had been accepted into a medical school, but that she does not intend to abandon her job as a caregiver. Charlie is one of the most requested event producers in all of New York. The prejudice he suffered from his sexual orientation and the depression that led him to moments of self-