3 | Requiem for an Undead Man
7/14/202628 min
A memorial service in Rhode Island for Nicholas Rossi is cancelled. Did he fake his death?
Content Warning: This series contains adult themes and references to sexual violence.
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Content warning. This series contains adult themes and references to sexual violence. You are listening to I Am Not Nicholas, an Audible original. Episode three, Requiem for an Undead Man.
Steve· Soundbite0:16
Nick, it's good to talk to you. It's been too many years.
Jane McSorley· Host0:20
It's January 2020, and it's been a while since Rhode Island's radio and TV stations have heard from local children's rights lobbyist, Nicholas Rossi. But suddenly, he's back on the scene again.
Steve· Soundbite0:33
I understand that, uh, you're not well. Well, Steve, unfortunately I've been, uh, diagnosed with, uh, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and unfortunately this has come much too soon in my life.
Jane McSorley· Host0:45
The prognosis isn't good.
Steve· Soundbite0:47
And now I could be looking at the last few hundred days of my life.
Jane McSorley· Host0:53
Rossi was once a regular on this show, back when he was campaigning to right the wrongs of Rhode Island's Department of Children, Youth and Families, the DCYF.
Steve· Soundbite1:05
So in your youth, you were placed in foster care and then placed out of state.
Jane McSorley· Host1:09
Rossi reminisces about his campaign to stop young people in care being sent to facilities hundreds of miles away, out of state. He's sad that now it looks as if he won't live to see the day they come to an end.
Steve· Soundbite1:23
Out-of-state placements are unfortunately continuing to this day.
Jane McSorley· Host1:28
Even now, diagnosed