PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE | BY J. Brady McCollough | 08.14.16
Jessica Neal walks through the doors of her old high school gym wearing a black “Fight Against Heroin” T-shirt. She tries to calm her nerves. Eight years is a long time to be away.
“I get goosebumps being back in here,” she says.
Jessica has lived a few lives since then. The teenager who played basketball on this same parquet floor for Washington High’s Lady Prexies and wanted to make her parents proud is gone. Her classmates would not believe what she’s been up to since graduation, unless they happened to read about it in the newspaper last August, or hear about it on Facebook.