Respecting Your Tragic End

Summary

Kelly had a favorite mantra: "Release the savior complex, and honor the path of others."

It was a line she practiced most religiously on me.

That day, I’d just stepped through the door after a grueling graveyard shift when my neighbor began pounding on the door like a maniac. She screamed that my son, Toby, had been dangling from the balcony railing for nearly an hour. He’d cried himself hoarse, she said, and she’d been banging on the door for twenty minutes with no answer.