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Lived his life. and i'm wondering if you -- do you think about that? >> you know, i do. people have been so kind to me. and they reach out. and, you know, they don't understand sometimes that i've got to be left alone. because i've got to focus on the good things. you know, these pictures and the facebook page set up for gus. there's so many good pictures. there's so many good memories. and that's what i have to focus on. you know, i'm determined that gus not be remembered just for his illness and what ended his life. that's nothing. he was such a good boy. a good man. he had a good heart. he ...

He's just so full of love. and i'm just determined that he not be remembered -- >> that way. >> -- by the end of his life, but that he be remembered by all the goodness. he was just this unbelievable guy. he could sing, he could dance. i mean, he could shake his booty like nobody else. and he would entertain people with just his dancing. as a young man. and when he was in high school, he got the spirit award a couple of times, and he was senior, got a senior award -- >> he was valedictorian of his class. >> he was valedictorian of his high school. gus was something special. all my children are...

Such love inside of him that this illness was nothing voluntary. it wasn't like he did something to deserve this sort of condition. and as a society, we need to genuinely look at the way we treat the mental illness, you know, because it's in my view one of the great problems of our age, the inequity between the way we treat physical illnesses and the way we treat mental illnesses. i mean, i read somewhere that mental illness is another physical illness, it's just a chemical imbalance in the brain. and that's another way to look at it, that mental illness is a physical illness. >> yeah, it is. ...

It, a lot of it on the way home. when we got home, i sat at one end of the dining room table, he sat at the other end. i ate my sandwich. he was writing furiously in his journal. and after i ate my sandwich, i said, "night, gus," "night, bud." he said "goodnight," and he was still writing away. and the next morning, gus, you know, gus was stronger than me. you know, he's better looking, he's stronger, he's smarter. he is everything that you would want in a son. and if gus were rested, if gus were rested and had his heart 100% into something, he could, you know, i would have been toast. >> he c...

About gus? >> with gus, gus was a sensitive kid. he was sometimes overly sensitive, you know, and very -- he was the kind of kid that sometimes kept count of rights and wrongs and who got what. you know, he was very conscious of that growing up, but he blossomed as a teenager. and then when he was 20, after the campaign didn't work out, gus was kind of just astray. he decided i'll sit out another semester of school. his mother called me one morning and said, you know, i woke up this morning with nothing but a note on the table from gus that said i've taken a ride. and a couple days later, she ...