1. This post is bitter-sweet & I've been struggling to articulate my thoughts into words. However I'm going to try.

It is with a heavy heart that Jillian Durgin, sometimes freelance model & founder of Ritual Fashion , was in a tragic car accident outside her home in Rome, GA on 26 Aug, 2023.

When I first heard the news, I didn't believe it. I knew she was going throughthe usual BS most public personalities have with online a**holes so I called her number & left a voicemail asking her to call me, hoping what I'd heard was a different Jillian. Came inside, Googled her name while I waited, & was devastated to read the first entry was an outside news report of the car accident.…