He was the youngest of ten children, born into a loud, intellectual, deeply Catholic household where debate was encouraged and curiosity was never punished. But when he was just ten years old, that world collapsed in a single morning.In 1974, his father\u2014a respected doctor and academic\u2014and two of his brothers were killed in a plane crash while traveling to enroll the boys at a boarding school. The flight never reached its destination. It went down just miles from the runway, leaving only a handful of survivors and tearing the heart out of one family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the boy left behind, grief didn\u2019t explode loudly. It settled quietly.He later described how his childhood ended overnight. The house grew still. The noise of siblings disappeared. Ordinary worries vanished, replaced by something heavier and harder to name. He and his mother\u2014who had already endured more loss than most people face in a lifetime\u2014learned how to exist together in a new, muted reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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