The state’s suicide rate is three times the national average and 16% of its people suffer from alcoholism or addiction. Alex’s family are the faces behind the figures
Alex remembers taking his wife to see a psychic. The psychic came highly recommended by her doctor. Danielle was struggling. Pete, her son from a previous relationship, had killed himself in 2004. He was only 13.
Alex drove 180 miles west from Rock Springs, Wyoming, where the couple lived, to Rainbow Gardens in Ogden, Utah. They drove through Sweetwater County’s extraterrestrial rock formations, its oil and gas fields, its mines. There was nothing to see for miles but sage-covered high desert, a landscape of stark beauty and eerie desolation.
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