Dear Coast to Coast,
I can’t tell you how many emotions have come to the surface since you left. Friday was our family’s “Good Friday”. We pray there will be an “Easter” in our future.

We are getting through the realization of what Mark was actually doing to himself. I think we could have caught on quicker if it wasn’t just so unbelievable! I feel sorry for Mark’s friend’s parents. I just want to tell them “It’s HERION”, “Call Gabe!” Hopefully we will get Mark’s blessing to do that.
           
Looking around in Mark’s room where all the evil took place, it takes on the feel of a dungeon. I have to make myself come down here to reclaim it as part of our home. All his old trophies and uniforms are surreal amid the turmoil of the past 6 months. There is not one happy memory for him here.

We’ve got a lot to get through so we can get on with the future. The week we spent talking was the best therapy Kelly and I have had in Mark’s substance abuse history. You helped us so much. It was an agonizing decision, but the right one. We never could have done it with your help.

I know that Mark’s grateful too. He is grateful to us for rescuing him and grateful to you for helping him get there. Talking with him on the phone is like talking to the little boy who once loved us. He has a lot of pain to go through. First the physical recovery not only from detox but from leaving home for the first time. Mark hates to be alone. I hope that he connects there. Then he will have the mental recovery; facing all the emotion of the pain he caused and making amends. He also has to learn how to be a man. This is all a very tall order for him. I hope that he can do it. We are committed to helping him all we can, but at some point soon it will all be up to him.
           
Coast to Coast, you are the angel in our “passion play”. Thank you for all you for our family. We are healing slowly on this end. Thank you most of all for all you did for Mark. I hope he will be one of the success stories you tell future clients about. Time will tell and we’ll be happy to take it one day at a time.
           
God bless you in all that you do,
Steve