The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, April 18, 1996               TAG: 9604180004
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A12  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   23 lines

JESSICA'S LIFE

With sadness and free-flowing tears we read and watched on TV of the too short life of 7-year-old Jessica Dubroff, student pilot.

The icing on her coffin will be her mother's comment, ``God, she went with her joy and her passion, and her life was in her hands.''

No, Jessica Dubroff's life was in the hands of her mother and her father.

They should have taken Jessica to the zoo or the aquarium and bought her roller skates for her seventh birthday.

NORMA JAFFE

Norfolk, April 13, 1996 by CNB