There are no pictures, there are barely any words.....

This is a terrible and tragic story. It begins quite nicely, three girls out walking to Yu Yuan Gardens for some shopping. We were chatting and trying to keep warm by walking quickly - it was cold with an icey breeze at times to remind you it was still winter. We had a map but none of us had our reading glasses so the small streets on the map remained a mystery. We had been walking for a while and realized, twice, that we had gone in a circle and had passed this street or that shop earlier. It was not a problem, our program for the afternoon was a walk, no one had to be home at any particular time so we just enjoyed being together and being outside.

We had stopped to try and read the map with the small streets and heard this awful scream. A long and wailing scream. I looked across the street toward the scream and saw a man with his hands covering his mouth looking up. I turned to look in the same direction and saw nothing. I saw nothing because the tragedy had happened. A person, don't know, man or woman, had jumped from the top of a 30 story building. I found this in the paper this morning.

Click on the highlighted area and you will be directed to the Shanghai Daily Newspaper.....I think.

About 5 minutes later, 10 men, ambulance and police, were running into the building to the back garden area (I guess where he fell) to scoop him and well......

I cannot explain what an awful feeling it was to know what had just transpired, my whole body was weak, sickened at the thought. So sad. I thought wanted to cry but no tears, just this huge wave of emotion and sadness.