Colin Curran

Colin Patrick Curran was born to Mr. and Mrs. Pat Curran in Washington on May 15, 1958. He was the brother of Keelin, Sheila, Marcy, Betsy, Brendan, and Mary Curran.

“He lived down in the east village, on East 3rd Street, across from the New York City chapter of the Hell’s Angels. And he lived on the fifth floor walkup.”

Colin came to the East Coast alone after graduating high school in Kent and living in San Francisco. He was a young gay man, nineteen at the oldest, when he settled into his apartment. The first time he tried to kill himself he jumped from the fifth story of his building.
            “The trees broke his fall. Limbs broke his fall.”
            ‘His fall’ has been of mythic proportions to me through my life. How my uncle, my father’s older brother, could have jumped off of a building, I could never fathom as a young girl. I imagined it and I still imagine it- what he felt falling. What he saw. Were his eyes open? What was he wearing? What did he feel when he hit? The second time he attempted suicide, in August of 1982, Colin was successful. “Because he went up twenty stories,”

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