Three Love Stories
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0:22 - 0:23Hi
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0:23 - 0:25Hi
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0:26 - 0:30I was bullied in early middle school.
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0:30 - 0:37My tormentor was calling, so he called her back
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0:37 - 0:45and he said, "stop spreading slanderous filth about my sister!"
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0:47 - 0:54And I just thought, he's so cool. No nobody's going to mess with me as long as I've got him in my corner.
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0:54 - 0:57And he was in my corner, always.
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0:57 - 0:58[Dad asking] Who's going to carry you?
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0:58 - 1:00No one.
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1:00 - 1:02You're gonna go by yourself?
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1:02 - 1:05No, I'm coming with her.
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1:05 - 1:08Kaitlyn, look at me.
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1:12 - 1:15Now, turn the page.
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1:15 - 1:20Jonathan had his own struggles and a lot of it was self esteem
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1:20 - 1:23He was constantly having to be helped at school
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1:23 - 1:30Those all fed into things that had him turn to medicating himself
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1:30 - 1:32with alcohol and cocaine and -
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1:32 - 1:38We talked to everybody. Just everybody didn't see that coming.
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1:39 - 1:43Not just, what did we miss. What did we all miss?
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1:55 - 1:59Mark told me that from the get go, from the first time we met
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1:59 - 2:02he really felt that this was going to be something
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2:03 - 2:12I was far more cautious and reticent. I hadn't been involved in a long term relationship before.
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2:13 - 2:18We enjoyed nature so much. Every weekend we went out to discovery park.
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2:18 - 2:25We could see the change of seasons and see the subtle changes of the leaves and the flowers and the seeds.
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2:25 - 2:29Rain or shine, we made that quick walk.
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2:30 - 2:37Mark developed huge anxiety as a result of what was happening at his business
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2:37 - 2:43and had to go to the emergency room.
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2:43 - 2:48Twice we called an ambulance and it never occurred to me that suicide was in the offing.
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2:48 - 3:02The people at the emergency room did not talk with me about any possibility of anxiety leading to suicide.
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3:07 - 3:13I would thank Mark for the 27 years of happiness we had together.
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3:14 - 3:20I would tell him that I love him deeply and I miss him horribly.
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3:29 - 3:32She was a very successful child.
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3:34 - 3:39She was good at everything she tried.
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3:40 - 3:44Before she could write, she would have little notebooks full of scribbles.
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3:44 - 3:48And she would sit there with facial expressions
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3:48 - 3:49and write and we would go, what is she writing?
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3:49 - 3:58and we'd look and it would be pages and pages of scribbles and storytelling that was somewhere in her head.
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4:00 - 4:02Life got harder for Brooke.
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4:02 - 4:06The things that she used to conquer easily were more challenging.
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4:06 - 4:12Like, the progression in three years of what I would identify now as depression
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4:12 - 4:16but didn't see it that way then
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4:23 - 4:25One night, I came home from wherever I was
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4:25 - 4:32and she showed me she had cuts on her wrist
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4:32 - 4:38and I asked her if she was trying to kill herself and she said
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4:38 - 4:42I was, I wanted to, and then I changed my mind.
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4:42 - 4:47And I said, thank God you changed your mind.
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4:49 - 4:54I wish I had asked sooner, because I feel like I got lucky.
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5:04 - 5:09I still have times where I'm sad, just like everyone
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5:09 - 5:11but I can handle it now
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5:11 - 5:15I've learned ways to deal with it so when it comes up it's not scary.
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5:29 - 5:34It's not a happy subject of course but it's really important to talk about it.
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5:35 - 5:41It's tragic, and places like Forefront recognize that
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5:41 - 5:43and know that there are ways we can treat it
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5:43 - 5:47or at least try and stop it
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5:47 - 5:51those telltale signs of things that we don't necessarily know are out there
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5:51 - 5:55We should learn them before it happens to somebody else.
- Title:
- Three Love Stories
- Description:
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www.intheforefront.org
This brief video depicts three love stories of families impacted by suicide. Please help us end the silence and break the stigma of this silent killer that claims a life every 13 minutes. - Video Language:
- English
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- Captions Requested
- Duration:
- 11:35
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Claude Almansi
Hi acnar
Apologies for the 3rd "revision" of your subtitles: I needed to change the title and description of the page to the one that appears on YouTube, but I have not changed your work.
Best,
Claude