hong said:
The silver lining of this dark cloud is that at least you now have closure.
My sympathies.
This is what I keep trying to tell myself.
But, it's just so hard to come to terms with. For three years, we've been searching. The local police did little to find Brandon when he took off. Seemed that, because he had been in trouble with the law for drug use that he was not worth their time... and all that time, he's been right there - not 5 miles away.
Keep thinking - had the police searched harder, this closure could have been found years ago. My uncle (and the rest of the family) could have mourned and - to the extend that is possible - found peace already. But now, it just seems like we have to start all over again.
As unrealistic as it was, we truly thought (or maybe just forced ourselves to believe) that he was still alive.
Throughout my life, I've had five people that I was close to kill themselves. In the past four years, I've had two close friends of the family take their own life (very suddenly and with no explination) and discovered Brandon's apparent suicide (which could be a tragic accident, however unlikely it seems). Not to mention 2 very nearly fatal suicide attempts of my aunt.
Thank you all for your kind words. It really means a lot to me to have the thoughts of so many people - so many of whom I don't even really know.