This year we had a very difficult time deciding an essay winner. There were so many well written papers that captured the spirit of Magnolia Son’s motto of Live Life Large but more importantly captured bits and pieces of Christian. Our 10 person panel reviewed each essay and a lot of time was spent going back and forth about which essay was “the best”. At the end of the day we couldn’t definitively say one was better than another. It was obvious that each of the participants did some soul searching and put thought into their writing. I cannot express how much that means to Christian’s family. I wish this year we could give everyone a scholarship because it was deserved by everyone who submitted an essay. At the end of the day it came down to how the essay made us feel not necessarily the written words.
The Magnolia Son family would like to congratulate Savannah Pope on being chosen for the Christian Shane Andreacchio Memorial Scholarship. We wish her the best next year as she pursues her academic goals but most importantly… that she pursues happiness and her dreams.
Today I will be attending a graduation ceremony to watch my nephew receive his diploma. Days like this will always be bittersweet…..but one of the essays said it very well when they stated “it is a goal to live your life large… but even better to live your life loved.”
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We would like to wish Christian’s cousin Parker the best as he starts his next chapter. Christian always said Parker had a little Andreacchio in him 🙂 I can see him now coming in from spending the day at Tracy’s, shaking his head, grinning and saying “Parker’s going to give Tracy some grey hair!”….. and then all of us laughing, shaking our head and knowing we were all going to enjoy watching Parker grow up!!!
My soul cries with you mother!! Don’t stop raising your voice, we, your life partners called women and mothers, are with you and we help you carry your pain but above all to be an extension of your
voice and Christian’s voice now that he can’t raise it!!! as a mother, as a human but above all as a person who suffers from depression
I do not refuse to believe that version of his death (a depressed person before reaching the decision to take his own life there is a brief period in which there are real signs, which maybe at the moment you do not catch but after the death it is apparently not the case about him) usually when someone says they want to take their own life they are really giving a call for help, I deny this theagedy at no time did the only 2 people present, despite calling each other best friend and the love of their life, do nothing in absolute to help him? I listen audio from 911 where this guy severe time said I need to call the family but I don’t found anywhere were that happens !! How the love of my life it’s saying him will kill him self and I never get in touch in that day to inform them but take sanak and go sleep while him is awake and alone at home??? Or we are crazy but that not talk about love !! We have you back family you not are alone
You don’t are making history up for you can grief faster YOU ASKIN FOR JUSTICE and we goin be there stand up with you asking the same!!!