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My life after death.

Publication: U.S. Catholic
Publication Date: 01-JUL-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: My life after death.(Kathleen O'Hara )

Article Excerpt
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Ten years ago, on Memorial Day of 1999, I received the call every parent dreads. It was from a detective in Steubenville, Ohio. He asked me if I knew where my son was. My son Aaron had just finished his sophomore year at Franciscan University and moved out of the dorms into a house nearby.

On Memorial Day the house was broken into, and Aaron and his roommate Brian were abducted, taken to the woods in nearby Pennsylvania, and shot by two young men who were on drugs. Our families and hundreds of people from all over the country gathered at the university for prayer and to search for Aaron and Brian for five terrible days.

On the first Friday of June, we found them under two wild white rose bushes.

The ensuing 10 years have been a journey of grief. It is so hard to describe the unbearable pain that we felt as a family, that I felt as a mother whose beloved son was sacrificed to such violent evil.

However, we Catholics know very well the sacrifice that one mother made for her son to save the world--Mary, our blessed mother. And while I do not presume to...

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