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SELINSGROVE, Pa. — The parents of a 23-year-old Pennsylvania woman who overdosed on heroin have included a poem in her obituary that she wrote about struggling with addiction. The obituary for ...
Olivia wrote the poem "The Promising" when she was in sixth grade. It's a poem about her older brother Steven's struggle with heroin addiction – an addiction that permeated the family dynamic.
Delaney's poem—while haunting—is an accurate portrayal of what it's like to live with addiction, according to substance abuse experts.
Bridget Farrell says she included the poem about her daughter's struggle with heroin addiction in the obituary because it showed what the young woman was going through.