If she’d been diagnosed with cancer or had suffered a heart attack, I’m sure I would have left school right away and gone home to visit her. At the very least, I would have called her and told her how sorry I was that she was not well. I would be worried sick, praying for her and asking my friends to do the same. But this was her mental illness, something many of us at that time considered a weakness in her character, real “Days of Wine and Roses” shit. If only she could be stronger. I kept my distance and my mouth shut.
