Goodbye, Julie...

As I listened to Simon and Garfunkel begin to sing "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" I got the call...

Julie was my friend, and I'll miss her.


Julie said...

“I think that it's really important to have close friends who you can really speak from your heart with, you know, establishing those deep connections.

It's so easy today to be isolated and alone…just going through the motions in this fast-paced society.”

The Ann Arbor News wrote:

Woman fought but lost battle with depression
What appeared to be survival story ends in tragedy

Thursday, December 1, 2005

BY AMALIE NASH
News Staff Reporter

Four years ago, her story was one of a survivor who persevered and had hope for the future.

Today, it is a story of tragedy, of succumbing to the depression she battled for years.

In January 2001, Julie Harrison jumped from the upper levels of a parking structure in downtown Ann Arbor and lived. She was left partially paralyzed and hospitalized for two months, but a year later told a reporter she had turned her life around and wanted to live.

On Wednesday, Harrison made her way in her wheelchair to the top of a different parking structure, and she again jumped. This time she died.

She would have been 30 on Dec. 16.

Ann Arbor Detective Sgt. Richard Kinsey said this morning that it appears Harrison went off her

anti-depression medication in July, and her family had been concerned about her.

"It's so sad," Kinsey said. "People around her said she was always pleasant and good to everyone."

R. Patrick Harrison, Julie's father, said the family would be making funeral arrangements today, but he declined to speak this morning about his daughter's death.

Police said Harrison had just parted ways with her boyfriend before 4:25 p.m. Wednesday when she jumped. She said she was going to the People's Food Co-operative on Fourth Avenue for groceries and would meet him a short time later.

There's much more to this, there always is...