By: Elizabeth McKeehan, LMHC 1990 Basketball Homecoming Content Warning : This article contains discussion of suicide Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (Call or Text): 988 Three classmates, 30 years ago in a glamorous, albeit staged, high school photo, capture a carefree time in our lives where the future was exciting and unknown. We never dreamed that suicide would be a tie to bind us. Holly Maupin, Holly Coleman, and I had been classmates for the previous 12 years leading up to this senior year picture. We lived in Princeton, KY, a small rural town in western Kentucky. Holly Maupin (red head) and I had the same angry 1st grade teacher, yet Holly’s motto was always to treat others like you want to be treated. She asked me one day in class, “Are you saved?” I wasn’t sure what she meant, so I had to ask more questions. She helped me to think as a 7 -year- old about death and life after death. She had depth, but also a light-hearted humor. She always made me and o
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