Mental illness, addiction: Mother takes on ’broken system’
Kelly Wallace
She lived with that terror for eight years as her beloved son Daniel Francis Montalbano, a boy whom she says ”painted, wrote poems and told his mother endlessly how much he loved her,” struggled with mental illness and drug addiction.
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