Saturday, August 28, 2010

Daughter of US Ambassador Dies in Fall From High-Rise


Nicole John had a life of privilege and future with no limit on what she could do or where could go, but instead of launching a lucrative career in her two passions, modeling and photography, the exotic beauty, 17-years-old launched a life style that was one big binge....STORY

PHOTOS: Nicole John's life in pictures

At age 17, she had the world at her feet. She was headed to college in the fall and seemed to have it all. Her plunge from the 22-floor of a West Side apartment balcony was every parent's worst nightmare...

A Commentary BY Michael Daly


Seventeen-year-old Nicole John fell from a height where city hawks nest before it is time for their young to take wing on their own.

She, too, had just ventured forth from a home where she must have been the realization of her parents' happiest dreams.

We work and hope that our kids will have the chance to go to college. Then comes the scary moment when they actually do.

No doubt Nicole's parents were filled with worry when she left for the Parson's School of Design, just as all of us do as we watch our young ones go out into the world, as so many parents do at this time of year when kids first set off for college. No doubt.....MORE

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