âWhat would Robin do?â is a question Alex Leonard will be asking himself for the rest of his life, and he hopes others will do the same.
Robin, as in Robin Leonard, was Alexâs mother, a psychologist and a professor at East Tennessee State University. She died Friday after 11 days on life support following a stabbing at her home. Each one of those days, Alex sat by his motherâs side, held her hand and read âHarry Potter and the Sorcererâs Stoneâ to her.
Itâs the same thing she had read to him when the series was published. As a kid, he was so anxious and impatient to know what happened next in the books that he began reading them himself. Thatâs just one of the intimate moments that will live in Alexâs memories of his mother.