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Dear Governor Laura Kelly,<br />

My name is Lisa Brewer, <strong>and</strong> I am writing this letter on behalf of my son, Austin Gregory<br />

Adams.<br />

On July 14, 2020, my son purchased a pill believing it to be OxyContin. This pill changed<br />

our lives forever. In the early morning of July 15, 2020, our son was found unresponsive<br />

by his girlfriend in our basement. He was gone. This deadly pill was pure fentanyl. He was<br />

poisoned.<br />

This tragic event happened in Finney County, Kansas, (Garden City). His unjustifiable<br />

death is one of thous<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> thous<strong>and</strong>s as a result of this Illicit <strong>Dr</strong>ug Epidemic our great<br />

state of Kansas is facing today.<br />

Austin was only 20 years old. He was a very caring, loving, young man. He was working<br />

towards earning his HVAC apprenticeship <strong>and</strong> beginning the adult stage of his life. He<br />

was to move into his first apartment with his girlfriend that very day. They were so excited<br />

to be beginning their lives together.<br />

Austin will never know the joys of being a husb<strong>and</strong> or a father. We, his family, will never<br />

experience these joys either. He is so greatly missed by his family <strong>and</strong> friends. My son,<br />

along with all the other precious lives lost, did not ask to or deserve to die this way.<br />

I am writing this letter as a grieving mother <strong>and</strong> as a member of the Kansas <strong>Dr</strong>ug<br />

Epidemic Memorial Wall campaign. Our goal is to erect a Memorial Wall at our State<br />

Capitol complex in Topeka similar to the DEA Faces of Fentanyl Wall in Arlington, Virginia,<br />

to honor all lives lost in our state to illicit drugs.<br />

We are pleading for your assistance <strong>and</strong> support. I extend sincere gratitude for your time.<br />

Respectfully,<br />

Lisa Brewer – Austin’s mom; forever 20<br />

Dodge City, Kansas

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