" Have you ever had someone that just completely disappeared from your life with no closure? Drug addiction " My girlfriend/wife. At age 18 I became an intravenous drug addict. I met Janet shortly there after. For 17 years we lived together, despite our addiction problems, we loved each other very much. In 1995 I entered into a long-term treatment facility. We stayed in touch by phone while I was in treatment. I was in the treatment centre for 16 months. I returned to our home, clean and sober, my hope was to be able to help her accomplish the same. Unfortunately she wanted no part of clean living, I had no choice but to leave her but I tried my best to keep in touch with her and her whereabouts. In 1999 she disappeared off the face of the earth. While its not all that unusual for a drug addict to vanish, move to another city, or just break contact nothing was ever heard from her again, not by me, her family or friends. Finally in September of 2012 I received a cryptic facebook message. She sounded like she was in trouble by this time I had been clean and sober for 16 years a was actually in a position to be able to help her. I replied immediately offering to fly anywhere in the world that she might be an bring her home. She did not reply. About 10 days ago I heard she passed away from a drug overdose. For 14 years, her family and I wondered where she was, what she was doing. Private investigators, police and social service agencies had been trying to locate her to no avail. One facebook message was and still is all we know about the last years of her life. I had always hoped that we would meet again, I never stopped loving her. I have been crying myself to sleep for the last 10 nights, though she was absent from my life, she was never far from my thoughts.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:43:22 +0000