It has been a torturous 18-months for Patricia Said.
"At first I blamed God because he let them die," she confesses. "And I see other people with their kids and I get angry because its not fair I don't have my kids."
Almost a year and a half has passed since Patricia Said's two teen-aged daughters were found murdered in a taxicab at an Irving hotel -- a taxi that their father, 52-year old Yaser Said, had been driving.
"I hate him. He had no right to take them," Said says about her ex-husband, who is the chief suspect in the murders. He hasn't been seen since. "And the next thing I knew the police was at my door," she recalls.
Emotionally devastated, Patricia Said's world was falling apart -- until she sought free medical and psychiatric help at the Muslim Community Center for Human Services.
Dr. Basheer Ahmed, a Psychiatrist at the center says, "now she is in a a state where I think I can help her more."
"Without the clinic I probably would not be here right now," Said says.
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While she knows there is nothing that will bring back her daughters, Said realizes they still need her.
"They would want me to stand up and fight for them."
To show her appreciation for the center, Said will tell her story at a fund-raising dinner Sunday night. The event begins at 6 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel Grand Ballroom in Irving.
