Okay this is still Saturday night. Right. I get a call from my friend Mike who says hey, the UNL women's soccer team is having a party & I'm going, here's the address. Me & Mark & Jeff drive down there but can't find the place, so we just go back to a bar.
The next day we find out Jenna Cooper was shot and killed at the party. Makes the national news. My friend Mike who was actually there when all this happened is shaken, changed, by the whole thing. There are too many coincidences here to mention & besides there are just some things you don't blog.
And I was just gonna go smoke my pipe on the porch & talk to Mark & Jeff. You have these chaos theory thoughts about "If only I'd just..." maybe everything would've been different.
By all accounts (and especially Mike's account, which I value more than any blah blah you'll hear on a newsfeed) Jenna Cooper was an amazing person. I believe that. And I am sad that we lost her, especially at such a young age & to such a bewildering, inexplicable act of random violence.
Why.
Posted by Alan at April 24, 2004 11:30 AM