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Melanie has been my dear best friend since we met in the 6th grade. She has shown me so much love and support and my heart aches when I see the way she is falsely portrayed by many in the media. Her kindness, devotion to her children and strong work ethic have never wavered, even in the face of the tremendous challenges she has faced due to her marriage. I do not believe she is capable of the crime she is charged with, and I pray for the day she can live in peace again with her sons.

- R.G.  friend

Best Friend - I consider Melanie my sister. We have been best friends for 27 years. As you go through life, you encounter many people, many that you consider friends, but as the years go by and hard times pass your way, you find out who is a true friend. Melanie has been that person in my life. She has been the person that I could always rely on. A friend that understands me and knows what I am all about.

As most of you know, I have two special needs girls. Prior to giving birth, I had many complications and was hospitalized several times. The two people that I know that were always by my side were my husband and Melanie.

As God may have it, Melanie also is the mother of two special needs boys. Her boys adore her, she cared for them as only a loving caring mother could. Melanie, although married at the time, has single handedly raised her boys. Her boys are her life.

- S.T. friend

Re: Melanie McGuire.

Melanie is one of the most caring people I have ever known. She loves life. She has the greatest gift of making everyone around her laugh and is always helping other people. She always puts everybody before herself. Her children are the greatest gift and life and I have never seen anyone cherish their children more.

- C.S.  friend

In recent years I've gotten to know a lot of healthcare professionals, especially nurses, and I've met some terrible, most reasonably good, and very few who were excellent at their jobs. Melanie is one of the very few that was excellent at what she did -- so on top of every detail (multiplied by how many patients she dealt with?) of our treatment process, so complete, quick and succinct in her answers to our complex questions.

Few have impressed me as she did. And then, beyond that, she even showed a human side which is usually so sorely lacking in the people that do this kind of work. She cared and was genuinely supportive. Still is.

With everything she's going through. This is rare indeed. Very few professionals and people have made such an impression. I wish her the best.

- A.L.  patient

I got to know Melanie as a Nurse who is emotionally supportive, hard working, highly competent and dedicated to helping her patients. She was always there for us, as a kind professional and as a friendly voice to help us through the ups and downs of a complex and emotionally taxing fertility treatment process.

Melanie is a great listener and a kind person who uses her professional skills and empathy to help people through the burdensome and complex medical processes necessary to build their families.

- D.A. patient
 

In life, you meet great people who just change your life forever. Melanie was such a person for me. I've met a lot of great people in a wide array of social service jobs - but none have been better than Melanie. Without having met Melanie, I wouldn't be alive today.

- T.S. Friend

I'm writing in reference to Melanie McGuire and the website you're setting up concerning her case. I am more than happy to be able to assist Melanie by saying a few words about her character.

Melanie and I have been friends since 1987. We met when we both were working at a family owned department store. We spent hundreds of hours in each other's company there and we had many good times and got to know each other very well. She's one of the funniest, smartest, sweetest, most compassionate people I've ever known. We forged a lasting bond, I am pleased to say, and she's one of the few people I know I can always rely on for true friendship and loyalty.

I trust her completely, as does my husband, and we are greatly distressed by what she is going through now. We are convinced of her innocence and we are especially saddened that she has not been able to see her children.

Melanie is a wonderful, loving mother. Her children have always been her first priority, and she does everything she can for them. I would trust her with my own child, and I'm longing for the day she is able to be reunited with her two boys. Melanie is a wonderful person and I am proud to call her my friend.

- A. L. friend

I have known Melanie since we started nursing school 11 years ago. Going through a program like the one we did was difficult and having a good friend makes it easier. We shared many laughs, and cries during those years, and the bond we formed has kept us close all these years later. We were bridesmaids in each others' weddings, and continued to share the ups and downs of daily life with each other. My daughter calls her "Aunt Mennie", and plays with her sons.

I know her to be kind, sensitive, caring, upstanding, honest, and strong. I know her to be a wonderful mother, friend, sister, daughter, and wife. What she has been accused of does not fit the picture of the person I know. Her life has always revolved around her children, and without them she has been lost. I pray every day that this nightmare of a mistake will be over for her, and she can go back to her life caring for her boys, and taking care of patients who adore her.

She has touched so many people's lives, and made them better. I love her, and will stand by her.

- J.A. friend, former classmate