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'Graham's Tales' are the true-life stories of Graham Cowley, a retired Medical Examiner's investigator and part-time actor who worked in Vancouver and San Francisco. In 35 years Cowley investigated over 20,000 deaths. Cowley witnessed firsthand how people die: homicides, suicides, natural causes, accidental, and the AIDS epidemic. These twenty-two stories are an inside look at how we die, told from the perspective of the man who comes to your house and drives away with the body of your loved one. And in the end, Cowley tells the tragic story of what happened when death came to his door.

A hard old rock, a hard old man. He, unyielding to people, society, history, system, fate, surroundings and even himself. Threatened by history and reality, in each tough situation, he took every brave acts.

Cochava, a drug addict living a criminal life was forced to make the hardest decision of her life, when she placed her daughter Sivan, at 5 years old into foster care. The Tamari family welcomed their new daughter with love into a family of 4. Cochava spent 25 years in out of prison over the next 30 years of her life while her daughter Sivan was raised in a religious kibbutz. Their only contact being through a series of emotional letters and random encounters through isolated meetings. Seven years ago, Cochava was released from prison and started her rehabilitation process. In 2011, Sivan saw that her mother was falling into a new crisis and made a life changing decision to make a home together in Tel Aviv For the first time in over 2 decades their paths intertwined founding the first true Rehabilitation of Cochava This is their Story.

When an ordinary teen commits an extraordinary crime, two families and a community are desperate for answers. How did things go so horribly wrong and when is 'typical' not OK?