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“A mother’s fight for truth and justice, exposing corruption, honoring her daughter Danielle Cathleen Alvarez, and refusing to be silenced.”
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Nobody Sold an Organ. Somebody Billed $135,400. (opens the original)
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Free When You Give It. Priced When They Sell It.They called it a gift. The gift made institutions rich. The family was never shown the ledger.A system built on a gift that is free by law moves hundreds of millions of dollars a year through tax-exempt books, banks nine-figure reserves, and pays chief executives more than most families will earn in a decade.The only party in the entire chain who is told nothing about the money is the family that made the gift.This is for the people who said yes at
Five Years Ago I Walked My Daughter Through Those Doors; Never To Walk Her Out Of Them. (opens the original)
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August 27, 2021. I thought I was taking her somewhere safe.Five years ago today around this time we were getting ready to go to Northwell Health Glen Cove Hospital, I walked my only child into place I never thought would be the last place that her life would end.It was a Friday.She was twenty-eight. She was talking. She was eating. She was breathing on her own. She walked in beside me on her own two feet, and forty-one days later I buried her.I have thought about that walk every day since. The d
One Person Is Enough: The Dying Declaration (opens the original)
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I watched Cross of Fire the other night, and was inspired to write this post.I do not watch regular TV or movies I look for the true stories. Marshall was another one. Stories I knew nothing about until I sat down with them, and then couldn’t stop thinking about for weeks. There’s a reason I keep going back to them, and I finally understand what it is. “They were nobody when they started. So was I.” I can keep going. JUSTICE will Prevail!!! Because it only takes the will to tell the truth, and s
Danielle Thirty-Three Birthday Five birthdays of silence, and what I’ve been doing with them August 5, 2026 (opens the original)
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Danielle would be thirty-three today.I know exactly what this morning would have looked like. She would have started reminding me in January. By June the plan would have been settled and re-settled six times, the food, the music, who was coming, what she was wearing.And it was never just one party. Danielle had two, sometimes three. One at school. One with her camp friends, the camp administrators would plan a whole trip around her day, because they knew what it meant to her. And one at home: th
New York Is Still Using an 1847 Law to Decide What Your Life Was Worth (opens the original)
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Under New York’s Estates, Powers and Trusts Law § 5-4.3, when a person is killed by someone else’s negligence, the family may recover pecuniary loss only. Lost wages. Lost future earnings. Funeral costs. Medical bills.That is the whole list.No recovery for grief. None for anguish. None for the loss of love, companionship, or comfort. The measure of what your child was worth is the measure of what your child would have earned.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.
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