"He was my best friend!" my son told me while he was crying in response to the news.
Tristan was a student at White Bluff Elementary School. His principal treasures the last picture of taken of Tristan, it was last week at a school assembly. He was singing his heart out, something his youth pastor says he loved to do. "He may be off key a couple of times, but he wanted you to know he was singing, he loved to sing," said Joe Driggers of the Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church.
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My son told me he'd had a bad feeling that something was going to happen to him and that made it even more horrifying. And truth be told, I'd had a sense of foreboding myself, but it was formless. I didn't know what it meant. Jonathan said he knew he was going to die!
Last night, we went to church and along with a few of the other kids, met with the pastor, the youth minister and a school counselor who is a church member and she helped the kids talk about it. They also made cards for the family.
We don't know yet when the funeral will be but I plan for us to go so that, along with the other kids, Jonathan can say goodbye.
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So sorry to hear about Tristan. I hate to hear that Jonathan lost a friend. I'll be praying for his family as well as all of his friends and teachers as you all go through this grieving process.
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