Stephanie Hayes: ST. PETERSBURG — Ted Dahlem settled into bed every night.
He talked to his wife. She died in 2005.
He talked to his children. Three of his four died, one by one, in 2007.
He talked to God.
What had he done wrong? Was he being punished for something? What else could possibly happen?
He thought about his only surviving child — a 50-year-old St. Petersburg firefighter with a life of her own, open to uncertainty.
"I don't know what I would do if I lost her," he said. "The fourth one."
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