Jessie

This is the saddest news: our friend Jessie Doktor passed away today. She was nine. For some years now she has fought leukemia. This summer she had a new kind of cord-blood, stem-cell, marrow transplant. About a week ago she got an bad infection.


I love this picture of her not just cause of she's wearing a Red Sox cap in New York, or that she's in front of the Apple Store. She was such a fighter with an intense, competitive will. But I love her smile, that sneaky grin.

Video Tribute: Jessica Rose Doktor
If you want to know her better, here's Jessie in her own words.
And here's a Boston Globe article by Erica Tochin

Her mother writes: "And if you would…please fold some paper cranes. As many as you can. We will post how and where to deliver them…and we’re not yet sure how we’ll use them…but we would like to have at least 1000 paper cranes in Jessie’s honor."

Guess I'll start folding.