TOO YOUNG, TOO SOON, TOO MANY –
January 20, 2021 – The teenager added, “You lit up my world and my heart is full of love for you. a piece of you will remain with me forever. I love you indefinitely harry. you are an angel and you will always be a beautiful person inside and out. Rest in peace.”
Lily concluded her post by sharing a quote from Ernest Hemingway’s 1929 book, A Farewell to Arms, that reads, “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and very brave impartially.”
Following a years-long battle with addiction, Harry died on Sunday from an accidental overdose death of prescription drugs. He was 24. “We will forever be saddened that his life was cut short by this devastating disease,” the family said in a statement to The New York Times on Monday, January 18. “He achieved a lot in his 24 years, but we will never get the chance to see how much more Harry could have done.”
