There is so much going through my mind. Today I learned that a friend of mine since elementary school died today, apparently from falling off a balcony in Austin, and all of my friends think it’s suicide. I am angry, frustrated, and lost for words. All I think about is what if this or that happened, could it have prevented him from taking his own life if he did? 

He had a twin, and we were all the same age, had the same teachers in elementary school, played ball, starcraft, pokemon, yu-gi-oh, you name it we did everything together. He was always happy and energetic from what I remember and he was always do darn positive even when we would fail a quiz or fail at something together, or lose in a game against another team. All of those memories of him and I hanging out at each other’s houses just rushed into my head and I was just overcome with all of my emotions. Please pray for his brothers and his parents, whom I knew loved him very much.

You were one of my best friends in Plano and the best neighbor I could ever ask for, I’ll miss you Richard Holland, see you soon.

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Here’s the news link that I got about him: http://austin.ynn.com/content/top_stories/280234/19-year-old-male-dies-after-fall-from-west-campus-balcony

He didn’t commit suicide and it was purely accidental. Thank God.