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The Phone Call That Comes After the Funeral If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home from Interstate 90. You are reading it because a 60-year-old driver, whose blood alcohol was later measured at 0.16% — twice the legal limit in New York — drove east in the westbound lanes of the Thruway through the town of Mohawk in Montgomery County and struck the car your person was driving head-on, somewhere near 8:44 in the evening of February 20, 2025. The force of that impact required mechanical extrication for both drivers. Your loved one was twenty-five. He was building a career with his father in the family business. He was, by every account, weeks away from a wedding. The criminal system has now spoken. On June 4, 2026, the at-fault driver — a nurse practitioner from Delmar — was sentenced to two-and-a-half to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty to second-degree vehicular manslaughter. The Montgomery County District Attorney called it a “stark reminder of the devastating consequences of impaired driving.” That sentence is a chapter. It is not the book. And it is not the only book. What the criminal court can do is punish. What the criminal court cannot do is restore a future — the future earnings your loved one would have built, the family business he would have grown, the wedding that will not happen, the grandchildren who will not be born. Those losses live in a different courtroom, under a…