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Just before graduating from ninth grade, Alicia Hayes, 15, and Amber Hernandez, 14, opted out of adolescence at this spot. On the night of Wednesday, May 22, Amber had a dispute with her parents and ran from the house. Sometime later, she and Alicia went to Point Fermin, climbed the fence and stood amid the wildflowers. They took their shoes off, tied their wrists together with twine and jumped. The next day a beachcomber found their broken bodies on the rocks at water's edge, some 150 ft. below. "Mom and Dad, I love you," read the note Amber left...
...known to be troubled--Alicia, in particular, had struggled with depression and drugs--and both had received some counseling. Alicia had run away from home, where she lived with her mother, stepfather and older sister, more than once, and Amber too ran away. According to Amber's father Marty Hernandez, earlier this year the two girls got as far as Santa Monica together and were missing for five days before the police found them...
...father says, it was with "normal teenage problems": she hated her curfew, balked at her chores and thought her parents were too strict. She had tried marijuana a few times, and her parents immediately sent her to drug counseling. "We didn't throw her in and say, 'Fix her,'" Hernandez says. "We all participated as a family." The day before her death, she proudly told a friend that she had not smoked pot in seven weeks...
...Hernandez, an environmental-protection specialist for the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, describes his daughter as a gentle soul. One afternoon they went to look at tidal pools together. The tide had come in, stranding hundreds of sea cucumbers. Amber spent the afternoon rescuing the helpless things. "She was a happy girl," he says. "I don't know what happened." He adds, "My message is to love your kids as much as you can, because you don't know what's going to happen...
Christopher J. Hernandez '96, one of the final eight in the Quincy tournament, says he spent about two hours a day this week setting up stakeouts...