Today, she is an 11-year-old who makes A's and B's at school, plays the piano and French horn and whizzes through her neighborhood on skates. The sixth-grader is said to have no memory at all of the 58-hour ordeal.

"More than anything, I want her to have a normal childhood," said Cissy Porter, who was 18 when her daughter plunged down the 22-foot hole. "We want everyone to know that she's fine, that she's a healthy, active, loving girl. But we don't want people recognizing her everywhere she goes."

The girl's divorced parents, Porter and Chip McClure, seem eager to let the anniversary pass quietly, granting just one interview, to Ladies Home Journal.

Jessica told the magazine she likes Beanie Babies and animals, and has nine dogs and cats. She's bored by talk of the incident, which claimed her right little toe and left some minor scars from skin grafts.

"I'm proud of them," she said of the scars. "I have them because I survived."

The nightmares that plagued her early childhood are long gone.

"She doesn't remember any of it," said Midland police Sgt. Andy Glasscock, who was a fixture at the scene. "About the only thing she remembers is what people tell her and what she sees on the news."

Ten years ago, Chip and Cissy McClure were poor teen-agers struggling to make ends meet. While visiting her sister, Cissy McClure left Jessica in the yard while she answered the phone. Moments later, Jessica happened upon an 8-inch hole and innocently touched off a global event.

Rescue crews and citizen volunteers united to dig a shaft parallel to the one that trapped Jessica.

"You could hear her crying as we got closer. That's what kept me going because I had a 2-year-old child at the time and I could identify with the family," said driller Charles Boler.

On Oct. 16, 1987, paramedics wriggled into the passageway, slathered a frightened Jessica in petroleum jelly and slid her out into the bright television lights.