Regina Banis
Figuring Out How to Live AJD (After Jake Died)
On the morning of January 6, 2020, the “Office Girls” received a text from Regina Banis that said, “Jake’s dead.”
It was the exact moment Regina discovered her 23-year-old son, Jake, had died from an accidental drug overdose that divided eternity in two. Everything before that precise second was experienced BJD (before Jake died), and everything that followed—every breath, every thought, every sound, every smell, Every. Single. Thing.—passes through a filter of grief labeled AJD (after Jake died). Just that quickly life goes from being experienced to being endured.