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  • TIM COMES TO AUSTIN
    Gionfriddo, Paul

    Losing Tim, 10/2014
    Book Chapter

    Tim flew to Austin with his siblings in late July, eighteen days after Pam and I were married. For the first month of our marriage, we had all five children with us—seventeen-year-old Verena, sixteen-year-old Tim, fifteenyear-old Larissa, twelve-year-old Lizzie, and eleven-yearold Ben. We all had some adjustments to make. Tim had spent most of the last year in locked facilities where all his daily routines were regulated. Now he decided when to eat, sleep, bathe, and come and go. Austin was a new community for him, culturally different from both central Connecticut and the northwest. Pam was also a