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In His Footsteps: Lessons of Acceptance from an Older Brother

November 2011

Astor’s Dr. David Crenshaw relates this very personal story of mental health issues in his own family.

My Brother was three years older than I, but for as long as I can remember, he always seemed younger, and never more so than on the winter night when he awakened me in our shared bedroom. “David! David! Wake up!” he said in an excited and frightened voice as he leaned over my bed. “I killed somebody, and the body is on the front porch!”

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