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[xNicolex]

Wow, Heather would be 15 when I was born

[HeartofAngel08]

aww i was 1 when judith die too and when i'm 9 year old.. Jonbenet ramsey die

[LiveWire]

I was 10, but honestly I think I must've been ill that week because I did get sick alot that time of year, and I just didn't hear about it. My brother, who would've been 9, hadn't heard either. We did watch the news often, I remember the Challenger and the '88 election and other events that went on 85-88, so we weren't living in caves or anything lol. But somehow we just didn't hear. At school, my friends and I used to talk so much about movies during lunch, so I HAD to have been absent to not hear.


In fact, not long ago my brother stopped by at that moment when I was recording one of the specials (I think it was the VH1 Greatest Kid Stars program) and when they got to the part that of her death, he said "She died?!" I just said, "Yeah, back in 1988...don't worry, I didn't know until recently either." Which surprised me because I thought I was the last to know. Also, I was sure he would've already known about the fanart or the fan tribute vids (from other members) on my computer at some point-I had assumed.

[Katie]

I was 10, but honestly I think I must've been ill that week because I did get sick alot that time of year, and I just didn't hear about it. My brother, who would've been 9, hadn't heard either. We did watch the news often, I remember the Challenger and the '88 election and other events that went on 85-88, so we weren't living in caves or anything lol. But somehow we just didn't hear. At school, my friends and I used to talk so much about movies during lunch, so I HAD to have been absent to not hear.


In fact, not long ago my brother stopped by at that moment when I was recording one of the specials (I think it was the VH1 Greatest Kid Stars program) and when they got to the part that of her death, he said "She died?!" I just said, "Yeah, back in 1988...don't worry, I didn't know until recently either." Which surprised me because I thought I was the last to know. Also, I was sure he would've already known about the fanart or the fan tribute vids (from other members) on my computer at some point-I had assumed.

Wow!!!!

[JessicaRuser]

I know their are a lot of people who didn't find out about her death until recently. i just can't imagine not knowing because I found out as soon as my dad came home from work. He had heard about it on the car radio when they were doing the news. Almost as soon as I heard the news I started telling people left in right. I even remember going to my fourth grade teacher and asking. "Have you seen the movie Poltergeist? you know the little girl who played Carol Anne? She died.," I guess that was how I was trying to deal with it. just trying to tell whoever would listen. and to this day if I have young family members watch the movie I tell them she died. i've even told some of my co workers just in case they didn't know.

[richkim]

I vividly remember the news breaking on the radio. I was in medical school at Vanderbilt University and was driving down West End Blvd in Nashville when I heard it.

[Katie]

OKay!!

[xNicolex]

I vividly remember the news breaking on the radio. I was in medical school at Vanderbilt University and was driving down West End Blvd in Nashville when I heard it.

Isn't weird how you remember exactly where you were with big events like this? I remember the exact spot I was when I heard about 9/11, we were on North Central Expressway and I was looking at a Dairy Queen billboard.

[richkim]

Isn't weird how you remember exactly where you were with big events like this? I remember the exact spot I was when I heard about 9/11, we were on North Central Expressway and I was looking at a Dairy Queen billboard.

I agree. Some events are like bookmarks in our lives. I have given anesthesia to countless patients with bowel obstructions, ruptured or not. The overwhelming pain is unequaled except, perhaps, in kidney stones (nephrolithiasis). For Heather to have lived with her probably frequent PARTIAL obstructions must have been times of pure agony. The fact that she wanted to go to school as it was fatally rupturing...well, I can't even begin to process that. I say those last two sentences to say this: she might have been little, but she was tough as nails. She would have made an amazing adult.

[darrin_h2000]

I dont know if any of you watch the 70s show...but I was in a friends basement passing arround a joint when we heard Skid Roadie on KYYS 102 announce the news...and everyone was pretty freaked out about that.

I heard about Judith while working at a Pizza Hut...we were giving out plastic "The Land Before Time" puppets and in one day the whole supply of Ducky ones were all snatched up...one of the girls I worked with told me about it...but like an *** I shrugged it off like if she was nothing...it took many years later before I read her story.

[Katie]

I dont know if any of you watch the 70s show...but I was in a friends basement passing arround a joint when we heard Skid Roadie on KYYS 102 announce the news...and everyone was pretty freaked out about that.

I heard about Judith while working at a Pizza Hut...we were giving out plastic "The Land Before Time" puppets and in one day the whole supply of Ducky ones were all snatched up...one of the girls I worked with told me about it...but like an *** I shrugged it off like if she was nothing...it took many years later before I read her story.

Hmm okay

[LiveWire]

I heard about Judith while working at a Pizza Hut...we were giving out plastic "The Land Before Time" puppets and in one day the whole supply of Ducky ones were all snatched up...one of the girls I worked with told me about it...but like an *** I shrugged it off like if she was nothing...it took many years later before I read her story.

Well, you're doing a lot to keep her memory alive now.




I didn't hear about Judith back then but I'm not surprised being that it was during the summer. As it was I didn't watch a lot of tv as a kid. I was talking to my mom sometime ago she knew about Heather; maybe because me and my brother were so close to her age she didn't talk about it, I don't know; I mean it would've been her worse nightmare no doubt. I remember walking in while they were watching PII but only watched half and got bored, lol, so maybe my parents figured that I wasn't a fan. But what they didn't now is that I did see the Our House episode Heather was in.

[Sarah C.]

I was 15 (turning 16 the next month). I heard about Heather's death on the local news, and I started crying. I couldn't believe it was true, so I changed the channel and saw her death mentioned on "Entertainment Tonight". For a long time, all I could think about was how much I loved Heather and would miss her.

[stolie77]

that was my 11th birthday, and I heard about it on the radio....i was devestated

[Arizona480]

That was a Monday, so I was in school (8th grade), mourning the loss of my Broncos in the Super Bowl from the night before. I heard about the passing the next evening.

[dreamcatcher07]

I was not even a thought on anybody's mind when Heather died. She would have been 13 when I was born.

[chel]

before the TV screaming and crying

[Melissaotto]

I wasn't born yet...

i'm from 1990