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Post by JMW on Mar 18, 2013 9:34:03 GMT -5
It was played after song #34 and Casey's tease for it was that it was from a man in prison to his brother in a San Francisco hospital. Did the letter mention why the brother was in the hospital?
(I missed it when I was listening on WWIS on Friday because they temporary went off the air, coming back on during the middle of the LDD song (Help is On It's Way).
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Post by djshermanus on Mar 18, 2013 12:33:47 GMT -5
The writer and his brother jumped into a creek and his "overweight" brother broke his neck and was paralyzed from the neck down. The writer was in jail for drunk driving a few months after the incident as he felt guilty for his brother's accident.
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Post by mct1 on Mar 18, 2013 12:41:24 GMT -5
I wasn't listening that closely, but I think this is the gist of it: A few years earlier, the two brothers had gone swimming in a pond. The brother who was currently in the hospital dived headfirst into the pond in a location that turned out to be too shallow, hit the bottom, and was left paralyzed from the neck down. Although the brother who was paralyzed never really blamed the other brother for what happened, the other brother blamed himself (I think he may have dived in first but wasn't injured), causing him to basically break off his relationship with the paralyzed brother because he couldn't bear to face him, and to turn to substance abuse to cope. He was eventually arrested for drunk driving, and was serving a jail sentence at the time he wrote in to Casey with the LDD. He had recently seen his mother, however, who had indicated that his brother had asked about him, and wanted him to come see him. He was surprised that his brother wanted to see him, and this made him realize that his brother really didn't blame him for what happened, and that his brother wanted him in his life. He was scheduled to be released from jail in a couple of months, and planned to head to see his brother as soon as he got out. The song he requested was "Help Is On Its Way" by the Little River Band, although he referred to it as "Hang On" in his letter -- the chorus of the song goes, "Hang on, help is on its way" -- so his message to his brother may have been "Hang On" more so than "Help Is On Its Way".
EDIT: I wrote my post before seeing djshermanus' post. I am pretty sure that the details provided by djshermanus are accurate (it was a creek not a pond, the letter writer felt that the paralyzed brother being "overweight" had something to do with why he got injured and the letter writer did not).
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Post by darnall42 on Mar 18, 2013 12:49:52 GMT -5
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