She Poisoned Her Friend Because she was Jealous of Her?!
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Who was Mirna Salihin and how did her friendship with Jessica begin?
Mirna Salahin was born on March 30th, 1988 and she grew up in the city of Jakarta, Indonesia and she had a twin sister named Sandy. As she grew up, she developed a love for design and she decided to pursue a career in design. So, she decided to uproot her life in Indonesia and moved all the way to Sydney, Australia to study there. By 2007, she was admitted into the Billy Blue College. While there, she wanted to reach out to other Indonesian students to connect with and form friendships with. So, she eventually met two other students named Hani Boon and Jessica Wangso, as well as a young man named Arief Sumarko. Throughout their time at school, the four friends grew very close, they studied together, and they all formed a special bond over the four years that they attended college.
Eventually, Mirna started dating Arif, but the group of four remained close. After graduating, Arif, Mirna, and Hani all returned back to Jakarta while Jessica stayed in Sydney, hoping to become a permanent resident. She and her parents, as well as two siblings, did ultimately get citizenship in Australia, and Jessica went on to work as a graphic designer at New South Wales Ambulance. So, the three that moved back to Indonesia, they all kept pretty close contact. They tried their best to stay in touch with Jessica, but obviously that's tricky with her being so far away and not being able to see her all that often. So they did drift apart, but they remained friends. Myrna actually hadn't seen Jessica for about three years before she decided to return back to Sydney for a visit, and while there, her and Jessica met up.
The two decided to get some dinner together and they were really excited to catch up. But things didn't really go as planned. The two just didn't seem to have the bond that they once had and the conversation didn't really go as planned. At one point, Myrna told Jessica that she didn't really approve of Jessica's new boyfriend. In fact, she really didn't like him at all. Those close to Myrna would later say that she was the type of person who was kind of brutally honest. She would tell you exactly how she felt and she didn't really hold back. She used tough love and sometimes she could come off as a bit harsh. Most friends really appreciated this trait about her, but sometimes it didn't always sit right with others.
So, her telling Jessica this naturally made Jessica really upset, but she got upset to the point that her and Jessica just sort of sat there in silence before Jessica angrily got up and left the restaurant, leaving Myrna there to finish her meal by herself and pay the bill by herself. We don't exactly know what Myrna said to make Jessica so upset so quickly, but those close to her think that she might have just used her brutal honesty and said something that came off as really harsh. They hadn't seen each other in a long time, and obviously Jessica should have known this trait about her beforehand, but if it's been a couple of years and you haven't really talked... That's probably how that happened with it coming off as really harsh and maybe even mean.
But there also could have been other reasons for why Jessica took whatever Myrna said so personally. Jessica was always known to have a bright, goofy personality. She was outgoing and fun to be around. But during her time in Sydney after graduating, she was struggling. She was struggling with some deep, deep depression. and she used alcohol as a way to cope with it. And about a year after the meetup with Mirna, Jessica and her boyfriend did break up. By 2015, Jessica was actually hospitalized five different times after five different suicide attempts. There was also one incident where she was driving under the influence and she drove her car into a nursing home. Thankfully, nobody inside was hurt or killed, but she was literally feet away from crashing into the rooms of a resident there.
As a result of the crash, she suffered two broken ribs and a chest injury. She also received multiple citations for driving under the influence.
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