I want to go to beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. India.Arie, Beautiful.
PEORIA On an otherwise unremarkable day, 17-year-old A saiah Allen cooked breakfast for her household, chatted with relatives and watched TV with her mom.
Then she went into her bedroom, locked the door and quietly killed herself.
Weeks later, while trying to weave funeral plans amid the aching press of sorrow, Jennifer Raines ponders the abrupt death of her daughter. The loss seems especially shocking after A’saiah had fought for years to survive childhood leukemia.
“I don’t know what my baby was thinking that day,” Raines, 43, says quietly between sobs. “Things were normal.”