mom singing. ♪ i sing >> she did once every week at church. and at home where she sewed the outfits leslie wore to compete in miss teen oklahoma. >> i was the one that spent time with my mom, where it be singing or her making me a new dress for a pageant. >> so autumn, '79, 16-year-old brooks was an advanced football-playing senior in high school, making money breeding doberman dogs. leslie, a precociously pretty girl, and dad was busy, a chaplain at the state house, visitors of prisoners at mccallister penitentiary, even preaching a bit on early morning television. >> simply saying that death is not meaningless, that it's parent of the overall experience of life. >> and packing them in at putnam baptist. >> i may not match god's plan with my living, but he knows just exactly how long i'm going to live.