from The Boston Globe

Though a bit oblivious to the charisma that drew so many to her, Jennifer Kelly kept old friends close and added circle after circle of acquaintances as she nimbly stepped through the phases of her life.

“She was the kind of girl that everyone in class wanted to be friends with,’’ Luisa McDonough, a friend since they were children in Dorchester, said at a funeral Mass yesterday. (Read the full story here.)