A Lifetime Friend...

As I read all of the contributions to Jenny, trying to figure out what to say, I came up with nothing. And so, I am going to babble on of my time with Jenny and how she was perhaps one of the most influential people in my life.

This girl, who I had never met, knew everything about me. What I did that day, who my friends were, what I was planning to do the next day-everything. She gave me great advice and helped steer me away from choosing the "bad choices" that I so often was led to make. Jenny was more like a sister to me than anything, yet at times, she often sounded like my mother. Her bubbling personality and trusting manner is what made her such an appealing friend to all.

I met Jenny, but accident on Alamak chat one day. I didn't have alot of net friends, but I had one who used the nick MM. And, I was talking to her one day, when Jenny thought I was talking to HER. And, we hit it off right away. Jenny was alot more than just a friend to me. She knew me better than some of my real life friends did. I remember the first E-Mail I got from her...she was so exciting about getting her learners....and from that day on there has never nor will there ever be a moment when I don't think about her.

When I first heard about what had happened to Jenny from another one of my best friends Cari, I just about laughed-not quite but almost. "Yeah-right" were the first things I said to myself. I was in denial because part of me didn't want to let go of the best friend that I had had in all of my life. I knew, Cari very well at that time-well enough to know that she wouldn't be lying to me-I mean, who would pull such a sick joke on someone. Yet, I never recieved any E-Mail's from Jenny. She's just really busy I had myself convinced. I guess, it was the picture of Jenny's "new home" that I recieved from her father that made me realize that I would never recieve another E-Mail from Jenny again. And so, it was at that moment that I realized that dwelling on the past does nothing but bring down your future, and Jenny would not want that. Even though I can't see her, she is always with me in mind and soul and I know that whenever I need a friend, she is there for me. Sure, she may not be able to talk back, but she can hear me, and she is still listening now.....as always......

Krista Walker
July 21, 1997

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