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By the time Bryan Hullihen was settled into his new school and making his way through the fourth grade Christmas had arrived. This was to be young Bryan Hullihen's first Christmas following his parents’ divorce and his mother did everything she could to make it a great one for him and his sister. Bryan remembers how he and his sister were so happy on that particular Christmas morning as they opened all of their gifts to realize they were given every single thing they asked for. The fact that their mother still was not earning a lot of money but somehow figured out how to provide for her children in such an extravagant way is testament to the love and support that Bryan and his sister knew as kids. Around 8:00 in the morning that Christmas the phone rang and Bryan knew in an instant something was wrong. His mother rushed into one of the bedrooms where she could be heard crying hysterically through the entire house. After several minutes Christine emerged calling Bryan and his sister Heather to join her in the living room. She began, "Everything is going to be okay but there has been an accident involving your father." The divorce had been particularly hard on Bryan's father where his drinking escalated as did the hours he worked to assuage the grief he felt from the loss of his family. His father attended a work party where, after not sleeping for over 24 hours, he consumed alcohol and attempted to drive home. Falling asleep at the wheel he drifted off the road and crashed causing him to be ejected from the vehicle. These details were spared from the young Bryan Hullihen that morning as they headed to the hospital to spend Christmas as a family in the Intensive Care Unit.

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