“My son asked me not to make a shrine for her,” Ms. Hale said. “But I don’t know what to do with her room. I guess on some level I’m still waiting for her to come home. I’d be so much more empathetic now. I used to take it personal, like she was doing this to me and I was a victim.”

Oh how sad, Juliana.

Heroin took Philip Seymour Hoffman, too:

http://pandawhale.com/post/37447/russell-brand-on-philip-seymour-hoffman-the-man-was-a-drug-addict-and-his-death-inevitable-e-online

Heroin is a drug whose toll is felt across economic classes and different cultures around the world.