One thing that really impressed me about my friend was that he had next to nothing, didn't even have much in the way of clothes and repeated the same outfits over and over again. I guess that is what happens when your parents don't even buy laundry detergent. Anyway, what impressed me so much was that this guy, how had NOTHING, gave me a guitar and as you know, they are not cheap. He could have sold it but instead gave it away to me for nothing... and also patiently taught me a bit how to play.

He never asked for food when he was over, but my Mom could read the writing on the wall because she would offer me snacks and he would gobble them up like he hadn't eaten at all that day - which was likely the case. He was also very kind to both my younger siblings and they loved him as well. Honestly, I don't know of anyone that didn't really like him but after everyone did an exodus after high school, almost everyone he knew was gone. I think he probably hung out with high school students after he graduated and that only stays cool for so long. Unfortunately life isn't really like the "all right all right all right" character played by Matthew Mcougnehey or however you spell his name.

It saddens me because just about a month or so before he took his own life he contacted me on Facebook and we talked a bit and I think I accidentally made him very jealous of my success in life. I didn't feel like I was bragging but at the same time he was just working some shitty job at a restaurant in the kitchen for slightly over min wage, and I was on the other side of the planet doing rockstar work and really enjoying life. I didn't rub it in but the last time we spoke he didn't mention anything about being sad. I wish he had, I would have helped. It's so tragic.

one thing that really made me upset was that I never so much as ever saw or even knew who his mother was but after he committed suicide she was all over Facebook using his account somehow in what almost seemed like self-promotion to get sympathy out of people for "her loss."

I held my tongue as did almost everyone else but someone called her out about how she was to blame for this because she was a terrible parent... that comment ended up deleted but before that it got a lot of "likes" because we all know that while obviously she didn't tie the rope that he hung himself with, she certainly helped him get to that point.

As you can see I have a lot to say about this but yes, some people shouldn't be parents and I think if CPS had been aware of his situation, that they would have intervened.