I wanted to start this series as a means of getting my story out there. I have been hard pressed to find stories similar to my own, and if I do then there usually is not enough background information (at least to satisfy my own curiosity). This is just part…

By the time I was 13 I had been to more funerals than my friends have been to in their entire lives. Coming from a large Irish Catholic family it was normal, and shielding your children from the realities of a funeral was not an option; you went and you…