By  Steve Huff

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Chelsea Huckaby, Nona's best friend who brought out the truth about Nona's cutting and the abuse she'd endured as a child, does not believe Kevin had anything to do with his girlfriend's death, either. If she ever did, she has yet to write about it.

Shortly after Nona Dirksmeyer's murder, Chelsea wrote poetically of her murdered friend in an online journal (using the words from the Broadway musical, Rent):

"how do you  measure a life?

"in daylights? in sunsets? in midnights? in cups of coffee? in inches? in miles?  in laughter?  strife?  in truth that she learned?  in times that she cried? in bridges she burned? or the way that she died?

"how about love?"

Then a few days later Chelsea Huckaby was more openly emotional, writing in part:

"i want to talk to her again.  i want her to talk back to me.  i want to pull god out of the sky and make him look me in the face and tell me why.  i want to know why.  i want to get really drunk but i can't.  i want to sleep forever but i can't.  i want to stop this cycle of denial.  i want to understand my feelings.  i want to go far far away and stop thinking about this.  i want to be with jim and kevin and nobody else for the rest of eternity"

As often happens with those who cared for someone who was murdered, the pain Chelsea felt from losing Nona did not appear to abate in the months following the beautiful young soprano's murder. In February of 2006 small things still stung:

"you know what makes me feel like absolute shit?  when i open my phone and i see old text messages from nona.  when i see her name in my phonebook, and for one split second i think "god i should call her, havent seen her in a long time.. i miss her" and then i realize i can't hear her voice.  i realize and for a few more seconds, my heart shatters.  and then it goes away because i make it ()

"nobody really understood how close we were.  nobody will ever know what kind of friendship we had.  i don't care who you are, you will never ever get it because you didnt experience it.  i dont want to be bitchy, but i was there for all the stuff that nobody else had to see.  and it was terrible.  i just want someone to see that, someone to recognize that i put so much effort into keeping her happy and now it's for nothing.  i miss her"

In January of 2006 it was clear from Chelsea's blogging that dealing with the police for any reason related to the investigation into Nona's murder was stressful and depressing. In an otherwise scattershot online journal entry Chelsea wrote the following:

"i have 3 more things to say:

1)  i hate rumors

2)  i hate talking to lawyers/police... its depressing as hell

3)  i hate when lawyers/police ruin things for me.. like moving back into my dorm or seeing my friends or my life in general"

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