5742 Days

When Anne-Marie Cockburn's fifteen year old daughter died of an Ecstasy overdose, her grief took her in some unexpected directions. She was compelled to write her way through the grief, overcoming an old hesitation to write, which she'd always loved. She was moved to forgive the boy who gave her daughter the drugs. And she was moved to work, with all she has, to decriminalize drug use, believing that if the drug she took had been legal, Martha, and many others like her, would not have taken too much. Anne-Marie has become a fierce advocate for legal changes, joining with other family members who have lost a loved one to make the case that we could be handling drug use so much better than we are. And in the meantime, Anne-Marie is learning to live a life without her only child.