A Small Metal Square Amid the Ashes
November 20, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
Jonathan Reyes is 7 and lives in Sylmar in Southern California—-his family lost their house in the recent wildfires in Los Angeles County. Joshua is autistic and his family has been, amid everything else, especially concerned about what the impact of losing all that was familiar to him will mean. Yesterday’s CNN described the family visiting the ashes of their house of ten years:
On Tuesday, they brought Jonathan to the site of their home to see if any of his cherished Hot Wheels cars survived the fire. And maybe, they hoped, seeing the house would help their son understand.
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