“Emma Semler sobbed in court on Wednesday as she faced Jenny Werstler’s grieving family. “I should be dead as well,” she told them through tears, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. ‘I don’t know why I’m still here and not Jenny.’ The two young women had both struggled with devastating addictions to heroin. On one fateful evening in 2014, they shot up together at a KFC in West Philadelphia. Werstler overdosed and Semler fled, abandoning her friend in the fast-food restaurant’s restroom. Later that night, Werstler died. It was her 20th birthday.”
Source: Washington Post, May 30, 2019
