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Volume XII, Issue 8
...he was like a brother, a son, a special needs child and therefore that made him the love of my life-
Saying Goodbye to My Friend John
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Sean Cononie soon found out over time He would Well it is Christmas, and this issue be the Savior of the world. So to you should be about Santa Clause, the Birth Jesus, “Happy Birthday Big Guy!” of Jesus and the meaning of one of the To you Johnny, what can I say about most celebrated holidays of all time. But the person I loved so much as a best as you read this paper you will see it is friend? about the life of Johnny McCormick. It There is so much to write but in reis also about the death of Johnny. And in ality this page should be completely the future for Johnny empty because When I met Johnny it was this is how I feel, it will be about the rebirth of Johnny as he one of those incidents that did now that he has makes it to his final passed away. Each resting place, Heaven. not just happen, it happened and every day I Why Heaven? Well because God put us right there look at videos or first there is Christtogether at the same time pictures or just sit mas, the birth of Jedown with others sus, baby Jesus. Then of course when it and then the words start, “remember comes to the Birth of Jesus, then there is when Johnny did this or said this.” the death of Jesus , which allows us all This all helps to a fresh cup of “Johnto be with Him, Jesus in Heaven. So ny MoJo” it does help to fill up the in this issue are we sad that our little emptiness but there is so much more Johnny died or should we be happy he to receive to just feel a little bit bethas made it to Heaven? For this issue let ter. After all we spent 24 hours a day us be HAPPY, for John is in Heaven all together since 1998. because this little baby boy was born and When I met Johnny it was one of
Mark Targett You were just found a few minutes ago on the bus bench. I was raising money for a shelter that hadn’t completely formed yet. We didn’t know it, but our lives would be changed forever. I think the best years of our lives started that day at the bus bench. Like a few stray strands forming a rope, we were definitely part of something bigger. COSAC was just starting out and we were just finding our purpose. Once you were with us we knew what we were supposed to be. We became the largest grass roots shelter in the state. We became the second largest street newspaper in the country. We became a sober house. We became a place to eat and a place to find work. We became a community orientated homeless shelter. A homeless shelter that would not turn anyone away. Johnny was loved for who he was and not for what he did. He did not have to be anyone else. He was just himself and that was good enough. The love he experienced was true. How can anyone love us if we are not ourselves? Johnny, you were waiting your whole life to meet us on the bus bench that day. And we were waiting for you. We were always a family, we just hadn’t met yet.
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