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Editors Note<\/em><\/strong>: Joey Forcherio, a senior at Christian Brothers High School in Memphis, TN, wrote this letter to a classmate he had never met who was one of two students recently killed in a tragic automobile accident. I wrote a column<\/a> about the two young men who lost their lives and how their parents and classmates must deal with their passing and others have written powerful testimonies to their lives. I believe Joey\u2019s letter speaks volumes from classmates who were touched by their deaths. His writing is beautiful and the manner in which he exposes his emotions is powerful.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Colin,<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember ever talking to you before. We never played on a team together. We never had a class together. I am not even sure if you knew my name. That is what is so confounding to me about my mourning; we never met, but yet I am deeply, penetratingly hurt by your death.<\/p>\n

That is what CBHS does to its students. It takes young na\u00efve boys and unexplainably intertwines them into brothers. When your brothers hurt, you hurt; when your brothers rejoice, you rejoice.<\/p>\n

At no point in my life have I or will I ever have the same type of brotherhood as what I have been blessed enough to have cherished for four years. From the outside, people would call us strangers. From the inside, you are my brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe who dies with me on this battlefield today shall be my brother.\u201d Shakespeare<\/em><\/p>\n

You brother beyond life,<\/p>\n

Joey Forcherio<\/p>\n

Class of 2015, CK2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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