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Six years ago, Jim Gray and Sandy Tabor-Gray lost their son, Michael, to a heroin overdose. His death was as devastating as you’d imagine, made all the more so because Michael left behind two small children, twins, too young to understand what happened to their dad. With the twins’ mother out of the picture, Jim and Sandy reentered the world of young-kid parenthood, something they never expected to do this late in life. In stories of addiction, much as with any disease, we often talk about prevention, or the shock and tragedy of someone's death. We fade to black at the funeral, roll credits. But this is a story of the aftermath, about those left to live on once the unthinkable has happened. And about how Jim and Sandy responded when the twins began asking difficult questions about their dad, his death, and all that came before.
By WRAL News | Raleigh, North Carolina5
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Six years ago, Jim Gray and Sandy Tabor-Gray lost their son, Michael, to a heroin overdose. His death was as devastating as you’d imagine, made all the more so because Michael left behind two small children, twins, too young to understand what happened to their dad. With the twins’ mother out of the picture, Jim and Sandy reentered the world of young-kid parenthood, something they never expected to do this late in life. In stories of addiction, much as with any disease, we often talk about prevention, or the shock and tragedy of someone's death. We fade to black at the funeral, roll credits. But this is a story of the aftermath, about those left to live on once the unthinkable has happened. And about how Jim and Sandy responded when the twins began asking difficult questions about their dad, his death, and all that came before.

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