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Trying to escape the grasp of the drug, Jessica is hanging on by a thread. After learning she has the same infection as John, and that she is being evicted from the hotel, Jessica has run out of choices. She either has to start prostituting, selling…

Shooting up in the window of her hotel, a flophouse on Main St. in Willimantic, Jessica is given a 'free' bag of Heroin by the hotel's best dealers to keep her in their grasp. She shoots in the window of the fourth floor bathroom because it provide…

Back at the hotel room she rented with John, Jessica cries over all she's lost, her family, her lover, her own childhood. Overcome with grief at the quick and unrelenting reality of John's death, Jessica turns to the only comfort she knows, heroin.

Shaken and overcome with emotion, Jessica steadies herself as she grips John's casket. John died one day before his 44th birthday, leaving Jessica and his family on their own. At 22, Jessica had known John for 5 years and knew she'd be lost without…

In the last hours of his life, John had one request, that Jessica call his mother, who lived a few towns over, and that his mother would bring his three teenage children to his bedside to say goodbye. Jessica says it was the toughest call she's ever…

For five years, John took care of Jessica, he worked odd jobs, collected cans and bottles and never stole to support his habit. As an infection races through his body in their rented hotel room, she bathes him, takes care of him and watches him take…

Known for its small town Fourth of July parade, Willimantic brings thousands to Main St. for the annual event. Since they live on Main St. and can get some from food and candy, John and Jessica blithely float down Main St. and are shot with water…

Jessica and John have shared what seems to be a lifetime together. Sharing needles, love and the confines of the Hooker Hotel where they embrace each other and an addiction to Heroin. Theirs is a small town love story that can be repeated in anytown…

Story Summary to 'Jessica and John, A Tagic Embrace' Jessica and John met at a homeless shelter and embraced each other immediately, but not as tightly as their hold on heroin, or heroin's hold on them. In a story of small town heroin use, John…

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