Dear Lori,

I received your letter today which was forwarded to me. I am broken hearted to tell you that we lost our beloved daughter Tracy to a pulmonary embolism on Sunday, May 4. Perhaps you know that she had been hospitalized earlier this year with blood clots in her legs and lungs. She seemed to be doing very well, but when she did not come over for dinner as expected on the 4th, my husband and I went over to her house to check on her and found her on the floor. Since you were nice enough to try to contact her by mail, perhaps you will be kind enough to contact any others you and she e-mailed and pass the news on to them. We are still reeling her loss and miss her terribly every single day. I guess that we will forever.

Thank you for your friendship to our dear girl.

Susan Johns, Tracy's mother.

I was sooo afraid of this. I had a bad feeling in my stomach about it all for the longest time. I am going to miss her so much. I am sorry for anyone else that was good friends with her. I am going to write her mother back to let her know I passed on the news and I am sorry. This has to be worse for her than anyone. But I am also thinking something else that I am not sure about and am wanting some other opinions. I was thinking of giving her mom the URL to her diary but am not sure if I should or not. It is such an irony about all her suicidal ponderings she had, and after she decided she wanted to live after all, something like this happens. She's in my prayers.