.. her ex . alan
jonas had been my son for mere days .
jpna's father , peter , had been murdered years before , when jonas wass a toddler . his mother , adrienne , my dear buddy and neihbor , was so recently deceased that the depth of the loss i felt at her absence still crept nightly into my restless dreams .
jonas had been by his mother's side in israel when a terrorist's bomb exploded . he had witnessed her death and that of their israeli cousin . once they had finished healing , two shrapnel scars -one long straight one that ran almost the entire length of the bone on jonas's left shin and another one shaped like the letter L on his left forearm - would be p[ermanent reminders of what had happened to him that day .
especially , what he 'd lost .
in her will adrienne had named my wife , lauren , and me as jonas's guardians . adrienne 's decision didn't digest easily for either her llong dead husband's family in wyoming , or for her own distant family in new jork , where adrienne 's only sibling lived with his wife and two sons . her brother made it clear during a phone call on day three - days one and two , for me , were spent in shock as as i flew to tel aviv to retrieve my traumatized stepson and his mother's remains from israel-
jonas had been my son for mere days .
jpna's father , peter , had been murdered years before , when jonas wass a toddler . his mother , adrienne , my dear buddy and neihbor , was so recently deceased that the depth of the loss i felt at her absence still crept nightly into my restless dreams .
jonas had been by his mother's side in israel when a terrorist's bomb exploded . he had witnessed her death and that of their israeli cousin . once they had finished healing , two shrapnel scars -one long straight one that ran almost the entire length of the bone on jonas's left shin and another one shaped like the letter L on his left forearm - would be p[ermanent reminders of what had happened to him that day .
especially , what he 'd lost .
in her will adrienne had named my wife , lauren , and me as jonas's guardians . adrienne 's decision didn't digest easily for either her llong dead husband's family in wyoming , or for her own distant family in new jork , where adrienne 's only sibling lived with his wife and two sons . her brother made it clear during a phone call on day three - days one and two , for me , were spent in shock as as i flew to tel aviv to retrieve my traumatized stepson and his mother's remains from israel-
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