Jessica Edith Louise Foster, Jesse to the people who loved her most, was a 21 year old from

Camloops, British Columbia. Her family thought she was living the good life in Las Vegas. On the evening of March 28th 2006

Jesse talked to her sister in Canada who was planning to come visit Jesse in a few

weeks. After that conversation, Jesse was never heard from again.

I'm at Denzel and this is unfound. Oh, Have any of you ever watched the David Foster Wallace commencement speech that he gave to

Kenyan College in 2005?

It's called speech about having compassion for others. Are we well adjusted? It's a talk about how we all tend to get caught up in our own stuff.

He gives the example of seeing a person driving a Hummer.

What's the automatic thought?

Why does that person need a car that large?

Why couldn't that person have bought something smaller. We never consider that the reason that

person bought that huge vehicle is because the driver was in a horrible car accident 20 years ago.

That getting out on the public roads is one of the worst fears this person ever goes through in his life.

It's amazing how we get caught up in our own stuff. I bring this up because in March 2006 I worked for a magic show as a

stage manager. I was a stage manager for a Rat Pack show. I was also a printer repair man. Yes, really.

I had sore feet to sore back, no days off, dealing with cranky magicians, singers who were excellent

divas, and customers who wanted their machines fix yesterday.

Yes, it was a little rough.

This was all going on for me when I lived in Las Vegas.

All the while, most likely,

Jesse Foster was scared for her life.

Forced into prostitution, she'd suffered a broken jaw the year before, many run-ins with the law probably putting up with all of

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