Two women who have MS met for the first
time in May 2000, thanks to Northwest Airlines and Jooly's Joint. Sharon Colvin
of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Jill Henry of Montana had been email pen pals for a
year. They wanted to meet each other but neither could afford a ticket - so
Jill wrote a letter to Northwest Airlines in January 2000 explaining why she
wanted to meet her best friend Sharon.
The airlines generously provided Jill and her
mother with tickets to meet Sharon face-to-face on Wednesday, May 17 2000.
"Our story is quite unique," says Jill Henry. "Sharon and I both
have MS and met at Jooly's Joint. Sharon is the best thing that ever happened
to me."
 Sharon's story...
"About a year ago I met Jill on the
Parents with MS club. Since then we have become the best of friends. We talk on
the telephone and chat online when ever we can. We even exchanged Christmas and
Birthday gifts.
"Jill has become an important part of my
life. She is always there for me, I used to get very depressed about my MS, but
since I met Jill I am a different person.
"I am from Minnesota and Jill is from
Montana. We had plans to meet each other in May of 2000. Jill was going to come
here to Minnesota after she finishes school. But then her husband lost his job
right before Christmas and is still out of work. So we had to put our meeting
on hold.
"We decided to send our story to
Northwest Airlines asking for help with airfare. They reponded with great news,
they are sending Jill to meet me in Minnesota and are also going to do a story
on us. I can't wait to meet my best friend in person. Without JJ I would have
never met my best friend Jill."
Jill's story...
"Without Jooly's Joint, I would have
never met my best friend, Sharon, and we most definitely would have never had
the opportunity to meet. The trip was fantastic. Sharon and her family are
wonderful people that mean the world to me, and I can't wait for them to come
to visit me and my family next year here in Montana."
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