Elizabeth Phillips
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I don't think he even knew we were in North Carolina.
So anyways, it was on my porch.
I bring it inside.
I read the note.
And then he died.
So that was the last thing I got from my brother.
And...
My oldest child at the time was going into first grade.
And one morning, it was like, so Trey died in August.
It was like October, maybe.
My oldest son is like, can I tell you about a dream I had?
I was like, yeah, sure.
This will take 10 minutes, right?
It's a seven-year-old had a dream.
It's going to be something weird and funny.
40,000 words later, he had me type it out.
It was a story about an evil villain named Captain Pete who was trying to take over the world, and the kids fought back and defeated the evil Captain Pete.
And he didn't know any... He did not know that Trey had been abused by someone named Pete.
He didn't... I mean, he's so little.
Like, I'm not telling him how Trey died at that point.