Source: Anchorage Daily News
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/8738796p-8640476c.html
One afternoon in February, Andrew Sekasin, 11, kicked through the snow in a parking lot outside the Lao Buddhist temple in Mountain View.
A "novice" in religious training with monks, Andrew wore marigold robes, an adult-sized orange parka and a pair of large white tennis shoes. A boy his age breezed by him on a BMX.
"We can't really play too much," Andrew said, scrambling up the tallest berm. "We're not supposed to have fun that much because we are suffering."
It had been three months since Andrew, a sixth grader, played freely after school, wore regular clothes or felt his mother's embrace. At his parents' urging, he'd come to live and study at the temple in November, shortly after his only brother, Sakhone "Loy" Sekasin, 18, was killed at a Midtown birthday party.