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The Haywood family and Eden had been busy the week following Thorne’s return. The DNA results had come back positive, and the official paperwork to reinstate Thorne as a living person had been filed in the courts. Eden and Isabelle had worked carefully on a special news interview with the BBC where Eden told her story of the jungle m******e and the plight of the gorillas, and she’d teased the interviewer and the audience with Thorne’s story, not quite divulging all the details about her miraculous rescuer.
The news about Thorne had traveled fast. Within a day of her interview, camera crews and paparazzi had been buzzing about the Somerset estate gates like bees about a hive. Now a full week later, the print article in National Park magazine and the online edition were launching within
