No, they weren’t.
They were on vacation with friends, mom’s friend’s mother was watching her 2 boys and my brother.
She had taken them swimming and on the way home had a tire blow out causing her to swerve into a telephone pole, my poor little brother’s head was crushed between car door and pole.
Then about a week later, mom’s friend’s dad killed himself out of grief and blame that he knew the tire was bad and hadn’t fixed it.
A real double tragedy, so very sad.
What a tragedy.
I’ve baked cookies for decades at Christmas for a man who was hurt in a car accident as a child. I promised his mother as she was dying that I’d make sure he got cookies for Christmas. He passed Tuesday of a brain tumor that had grown all these years. Called his uncle who is my age and has seen to his care since his sister died. We taught together and have been friends for years . Realized we’re both such care givers First thing we said almost simultaneously was “who are you caring for now?” Think we are both at the age to care for ourselves.