Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  E rua tau i muri i tona matenga, he mea whakamiharo te mea i puta mai i te karere a te matua Navy aroha kua tae atu ki tana tama 10-tau-tau. E rua tau ki muri i mate a Hohepa Torere, i te 41 o ona tau, i muri i tana mate i te mate Creutzfeldt-Jakob, he mate neurological kore e taea te whakaora. Ko te mate whakamate tere e kai ana i te roro - e puta ai te ngoikore, te ngaro o te mahara, te manukanuka me te hinengaro - me te pa ki nga pukenga nekeneke me nga nekehanga tinana. I riro i a Rowan Torrez, 10 ona tau inaianei, te kāri (i te pikitia) i roto i te mēra i te mutunga wiki, tata tonu ki te rua tau i muri i te matenga o tōna pāpā. I tākaro tahi a Rowan rāua ko tōna pāpā a Hohepa i a ia e tamariki ana. Ko te tamaiti taitamariki te whakapehapeha me te koa o tona papa, e ai ki tana whaea a Julie Van Stone. I kii a Rowan (i whakaahuatia) e maumahara ana ia ki tona papa hei 'tangata tino pai' I mua i te pakarutanga o te mate whakamate, i neke atu ia i tana tama, a Rowan, 10, ki Boston, ki te whiwhi i nga tohu Paetahi e rua i te Massachusetts Institute of Technology, i kii a 9News. A, i a ia e ako ana, e haere ana rānei ki te kāinga, he maha ngā kāri kāri i tukuna atu e ia ki tana tama kotahi, hei whakamahara ki a ia i te nui o tana mihi ki a ia. Inaianei, e rua noa iho ngā rā i te tau rua o tōna matenga, kua riro mai i tana tama a Rowan tētahi taonga whakaharahara i roto i te mēra. He kāri tēnei, i tuhia i te 10 o Pipiri 2007, e pānui ana: 'Kia ora mai i Pennsylvania. E aroha ana ahau ki a koe, e mihi nui ana ki a koe. Ka kite atu au i a koutou. Aroha atu ki a koe, Papa.' He wā whakamiharo tēnei mō Rowan, e mahara ana ki tōna pāpā hei 'tangata tino pai' me te pāpā pai, ā, e ai ki tana kōrero ki te kaiwhakapāho, he poroporoaki whakamutunga tika.
I mate a Hohepa Rowan i te mate roro onge i te 41 o ona tau. I mua i te mate ki te mate, ka neke ia ki Boston ki te whiwhi i tetahi Kaiwhakaako. I a ia e tawhiti ana i te kāinga, ka tukuna e ia he kāri ki tana tama, ki a Rowan. Inaianei, e rua tau i muri i tona matenga, kua tae mai he kāri whakamutunga i roto i te mēra.