Noah Anthony Robles: The Boy Who Changed My Life

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Noah Anthony Robles, to some this is just a name of some kid from some town, but to me, this is the name of the boy who changed my life completely. It was Friday May 15, 2015 at 10:00 p.m. when things took a turn for the worst, Noah committed suicide. Noah was no ordinary kid, he had big dreams, one dream being of course, to be an Aggie. See nobody ever expected for him to be one to take his own life, so on my ordinary Saturday night when I got that phone call confirming his death, my life took a huge turn. We in the FFA lost a brother, but the Robles family lost a son and a brother. Being in the FFA we never leave one to go through this kind of pain alone, so we all came together to unite as one big family and are slowly helping heal each

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