[ TEXT MESSAGE ] To Karla @ livingforlife

[newhorizon]

How are you holding up after everything? I know it was a rough day for all connected to Zoran.

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[livingforlife]

Heartbroken, but hanging in there. He's like one of my own kids. Heather, Joe, and I have been a team for a really long time.

[newhorizon]

Did you know those things he said at the funeral?

[livingforlife]

I knew a few of them, but very little. Not even close to the whole story.

[newhorizon]

His father must have been an amazing man. Very broken, but very loved by his son. No kid breaks like that without reason. Did he make it home safely?

[livingforlife]

I remember when he showed up with the broken ribs. He didn't tell Heather until he could barely breathe, and then she brought him to me. He did eventually. Heather went to him and brought him home.

[newhorizon]

I was worried about him. It's impossible to keep a rational mindset when you're so distressed. At the same time, it was obvious he needed space. It's difficult to grieve in public.

[livingforlife]

He wasn't even letting his boyfriend or his best friend near him. He just wanted to be alone.

[newhorizon]

None of us knew his father. He had to have been heavily aware of that. No one there understood.

[livingforlife]

Caleb was the only one, and when things started to get really bad, Caleb walked away. Zoran carried all of that alone.

[newhorizon]

I can't imagine the crippling amounts of pain he had to live through. Many kids wouldn't.

[livingforlife]

I can't, either. It's incredibly complicated when you love someone who hurts you.

[newhorizon]

It sounded like everyone he loved hurt him.