LIFE STORY. “He was a troubled child, but he remained my child.” Gina (55) says goodbye to son Tim (32), who was missing for three months

Three months after he jumped from a bridge, Tim Van de Voorde (32) said goodbye. His urn is now at home with his mother Gina, who watched him grow from a cheerful boy to a tormented man. He lay missing in the water for months. “His muscles and his tattoos, that was his shield against the world. But underneath that armor was an eternal child, a Peter Pan.”

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