Keeping Annie firmly to ourselves, we spent the evening in happy disbelief at Lola"s. We talked, we ate, we moved from kitchen to sitting room where we continued to talk. Annie wanted to know all that had happened from the day we"d all lost her until today, almost two and a half months later.
My words danced around the issue of Annie"s parents until, encouraged by Gabe, I gently explained all that I now understood about their loss of Annie. I was surprised at the strength Annie had on hearing what I had to say, but I could see that her faith in her parents was such that this barrier seemed small compared to what she"d been through so far. Annie filled us in further, tearfully, on her experiences during the past few weeks; her loss of memory, her panicked flight which ended in Exley, her d
