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Thoughts in Losing a Child

January 8, 9:00 AMSt. Louis Family Entertainment ExaminerMelinda Bradley
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I  have written several things regarding the recent and untimely death of Jett Travolta.  I have kept a lot of my opinions to myself, but I feel I can no longer be silent. 

The press continues to push the issue of whether Jett was a child with autism.  I ask, truly, what does it matter?  He was a child so obviously loved by his family.  He was diagnosed as a child with Kawasaki Syndrome.  But most of all, he was a child.

I have a child with autism.  He is a child, not his medical diagnosis.  He plays, goes to school, does his chores, and is a child. Does the diagnosis affect whether or not he is loved, or the amount of love he recieves in the family?  Of course not.  Just as Jett was a child loved and cherished by his family. 

It is time to lay down the pursuit of evidence against or for anything.  The Travolta family has lost a brother and son.  Let us step back and allow them the privacy they so need at this time.

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