[Rick Lee]

I had a cousin who lived five miles from me in VA. She was the flower girl at my parents' wedding. We weren't close, but we hung out and kept in touch. Turned out she was a raging alcoholic and I had never known, even been to bars with her and had no idea. Her husband had finally had it, moved out and she was expecting to not be able to keep that huge house by herself. She got a DUI one night, got out of jail. Had a DUI accident two nights later, also got out of jail, since the paperwork from her previous one hadn't even gone through yet. She then knew she was gonna lose her security clearance, job, husband, house, etc. I was headed to a Van Halen concert one night, drove past her house and thought to myself, "I need to give her a ring and see how she's doing." Next night she killed herself. My folks called and told me to go over there. I got there in time to try to console my aunt and uncle as the coroner folks were wheeling her body out of the house. You never know.