I am blown away! My nephew (who is 15) has just attended the funeral of a friend who died from a heroin overdose....

I'm devastated.... call me niave but when I hug my little guy (he is taller than me now) i still see him in his aeroplane pj's singing "i wanna walk like you, talk like you" & clapping his hands high in the air, fresh from a bath. Now he knows people who take herion.... I'm so sad.

Why do they have to grow up? why is the world do ugly at times? how will he get through unscathed?

it is all happening so quickly..... heroin! when i was 15 it was naughty to sneak a sip of peach wine from my girlfriends mum's cask.... heroin!

i just hope he stays safe & makes it through these coming years in one piece because they are far more dangerous now than when i was 15 & even then they were bloody tough.... *sigh*