"Prayers For Bobby" deals with the anguish a religious mother feels after losing her son, Bobby, who committed suicide by jumping from a bridge because he was gay. The real story made headlines in 1989 when his suicide death led to a college scholarship fund in his honor. People were horrified that such a young person would feel so distraught that he would throw himself from a bridge. Bobby Griffith jumped from the 405 Interstate bridge in 1983. Witnesses say that they observed a young man walking calmly at about midnight, when they suddenly realized that he was heading to the top of the Everett Overpass to jump. He fell 25 feet right in the pathway of a trailer. The force of the impact was...
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