Jessica de Milo has added you as a friend.
I was looking at my Home page on LJ and under Friend Updates is this message: jessica_de_milo has added you as a friend, and under Birthdays: jessica_de_milo Nov 30.
It broke my heart to see that this morning.
Di Francis difrancis posted that Jessica is in a coma and in grave condition after a terrible automobile accident that left a projectile lodged in the frontal lobe of her brain. Di tells us that she has been operated on, but that there is little hope that she will ever awaken.
I met Jessica a couple of years ago at MisCon www.miscon.org/. She was hanging with Di, who had been her teacher at the University of Montana Western. We all hung out at some panels and some parties and became friends, sometime during that weekend Jessica convinced me to start a blog and get on LJ. She said it was a terrific community. Maybe I did because she was really cute and really sweet, but I did and never regretted it. She was the first person to add me as a friend and she is almost always the first to comment and give me encouragement when I send out a story or receive a rejection letter.
Jessica is a Christian and she lives her faith, she doesn't hide her light from the world. Di Francis describes her as an “old soul”and a magnificent person. I concur. Jessica is just starting out on her life's path. She has tremendous ambition tempered with true kindness and charity.
My own faith is a tattered torn remnant from childhood, but I'm praying for the first time in a long while that my dear friend Jessica de Milo will recover. The world will be a darker place without her light.