Jessie Speaks.
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JESSIE SPEAKS
‘Help me, Daddy. I’m trapped.’
Was the text message that Jessie Stevens got out to her father. Not because she
firmly believed her father could miraculously appear from some thousands of
miles away and pull her from the rubble. But because that was all she could
think at that moment.
Jessie
was playing video games with her friends. At nineteen years old, she could have
been like other college students that were away from home. Maybe partying,
drinking, but that wasn’t Jessie’s style. She liked games. And the sun was
ready to come up when they finished for the night.
Never
had a day gone by where Jessie hadn’t called and sent a text to her parents.
She called earlier, but she hadn’t sent her ‘good night’ text.
Even
though she wasn’t doing anything wrong, she didn’t want her mother to know she
was up all night. She simply sent her mother an ‘I love you’, and prepared to
send her day a text.
She
had the message open, ready to type, when the ground rumbled and shook beneath
her feet.
For
some unknown reason, Jessie held on to that phone as she made an attempt to get
out of her eight story dorm building. She was still dressed and she tried, she tried
her hardest. But the buildings weren’t designed to withstand all that seismic
activity and it collapsed with her inside.
She
never lost consciousness and was aware the entire time. When Jessie realized
the building was falling, she hurriedly climbed under a desk, clutched that
phone and covered her head.
She
didn’t scream or cry. She just closed her eyes, protected herself as best as she
could and hoped with all her might she survived.
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