USA First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff

Dear First Lady Teresa Parson,
My name is Christy Johnson. I lost my son, David Franklin, to fentanyl poisoning on May
29, 2023. I have/had two sons. David was the youngest. My two boys are the biggest
blessing God has blessed me with. See, I wasn't ever supposed to have children. David
was born November 26, 1993. My two boys were born by emergency c-sections. David
died. I died. Sadly, my poor son was gone a little longer than he should have been, so
when they were able to bring him back, he was permanently disabled. He was 29 years
old, but in his brain, he was no older than 16. Even so, you couldn't tell him that. He even
graduated high school.
He was such a loving and caring person. He thought everyone he met was his friend, I
never could get him to understand, NO THEY ARE NOT. He saw good in everyone. That
was his downfall. My poor baby trusted the wrong people.
My David was poisoned at a so-called friend’s house. My son struggled some with
addiction, but it wasn't to fentanyl. That poison scared him, as he had od’d on it before,
but that’s another story.
He didn't want that life. He wanted to have a wife, but that got robbed of him. He wanted
to be a father, but that got robbed from him. He will never get to watch his nephews grow
up. David was the only uncle they had.
Would you assist us in finding a permanent location for a Drug Epidemic Memorial Wall
within our Capitol? The walls of names can be projected on a wall so families can touch
their loved one’s name.
That poison is taking too many of our loved ones. All State Capitals and all towns need to
know the faces that this poison has taken away from us and the world. Each one of these
victims had hopes and dreams.
Please help us. We have lost too many people to this, and it must stop.
Thank you,
Christy Johnson – David’s mom; forever 29
Jefferson City, Missouri
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