What My Parent’s Sudden Death Made Me Believe
It started with a hot pocket.
4 min readNov 10, 2022
Alan died in our home when he was 39 and I was 12. It happened in the bedroom adjacent to mine. That night, I woke up to our dog barking and my mom screaming.
His body was on the floor as I gathered my dog into my room and shut out the noise of sirens, screams, and CPR attempts.
