Unfortunately the boy didn’t write it. He plagerized it from a book (can’t remember it off the top of my head) and the family learned about a year after his death. While I don’t take everything from Snopes as gospel they have the author and name of the book at their site. I got this email about 6 months ago and checked it out then.
Thank you. I just found your answer, after posting my question in #5.
I’ve read it before as well.