THEIR SON’S HEART SAVED HIS LIFE. SO HE RODE 2 295 KM TO MEET THEM.

by A.C. Shilton

IT TOOK SEVERAL DRAFTS TO GET THE LETTERS RIGHT. To capture her boy who, just a few short months before, had been so full of life, energy, and love. To distill him into the two-dimensionality of words on paper. Three weeks earlier, the thread that held Christine Cheers’ world together had been ripped clean away, sending her whole life spinning like an off-balance top. On Wednesday, 21 February 2018, someone on the other end of the phone had said the words that bring any parent to their knees: “There’s been an accident.” Her son, 32-year-old Navy flight surgeon James Mazzuchelli, had been injured in a helicopter training mission. If she wanted to see him while he was still alive, she needed to get on the next flight – and she needed to pray. James…

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Bicycling South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, July - August 2020

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