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Marie Lisette Rimer grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and gravitated to the New England countryside for a BA in sociology and an MA in secondary education at the University of Connecticut. She was a publicist for the Connecticut legislature and an award-winning English teacher at Rectory School in Pomfret, Connecticut where she began the school newspaper.
The joy of three children and country living with her husband Robert Wood were shattered by the suicide death of her youngest son, Patrick Wood. She began a search to learn why—at first through Patrick’s life and then through the ravages of depression and her mother’s similar death. Back from Suicide is the story of life after tragedy. It is the fall from grace and the search for respite through understanding.
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