My buddy Nick committed suicide in 2005.

My mom had a best friend growing up in Canoga Park who had committed suicide in her car by pulling over and swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills. When Breaking Bad came out, my mom noticed Bryan Cranston on tv. She tells me she went to high school with him, but they did not know each other at the time, but coincidentally Bryan had a crush on her best friend.

Several years back, Bryan Cranston wrote in a memoir about a girl he liked in Canoga Park- my mom’s best friend. He wrote that she had died from a car accident when in reality she committed suicide. My mom has wanted to find a way to connect with Bryan to explain what really happened to her if he doesn’t know already. Pretty sad stuff.