George Bonanno
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364 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
George Bonanno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, we were beginning actually to move towards some sort of reconciliation.
I don't think that was likely to happen, but we were kind of somehow trying to find each other a little bit.
And I was not sure at that point, I had not experienced this kind of death before.
And I was wondering what would I experience?
And what I experienced was essentially silence.
It was in the wintertime.
Everything was more or less frozen and covered with snow.
And I walked out, went for a long walk, and everything was slow and silent and peaceful.
The silence somehow seemed, it wasn't what I expected, but it seemed like a natural process.
Julia was home from college and she was at her family's home.
She was preparing dinner with her mother and the phone rang and she heard her mother cry out in anguish.
And the news was that the father had been bicycling home from work and was hit by a car and he was in the ICU, the intensive care unit.
Julia and her mother drove to the hospital and just as they arrived, he died.
Julia reports that she was absolutely stunned, and she remembers crying a lot, but everything else is kind of a blur.
She fell into this state where she was very upset, was having difficulty sleeping, etc.
For the most part, she did not want to talk about her father's death.
She wanted to simply be with her friends as friends, as companions.
And she really didn't want to think about it, to dwell on it.
She'd already suffered some before she went back to school.
And I think now she was very clearly focused on
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