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The Greatest Gift

The Greatest Gift Last year my son died ...and then came back. I had just said goodbye to him at the restaurant he worked at and then left for Nova Scotia where I stayed for the whole month of August. I was there to shoot my By Her Roots series for RootsTelevision.Com. It took two days for me to get there. I called my mother when I arrived and found out that he was in an accident with his bike and now had his jaw wired shut. After frantically trying to get him through text and email I got him on the phone though he could barely talk. He had just been released from the hospital and told me he was fine, that it was just a fracture and that the wires would only be in for two weeks. His roommates were there with him and he had tons of protein shakes he would keep me updated and I was not to turn around and come back. He lied. He didnt want me to cancel my long time dream of shooting this documentary. The truth was that he broke his jaw on both sides separating it from his skull. He had bee...