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Florence will be asked over and over by the police what time, exactly, she saw the girls pass by her house. Her answer will change and change again because she isn’t sure. For the rest of her life, she will pay close attention to the time.
A lesson Caitlin has learned early on, is that beautiful people are often gifted beautiful things. Like flowers. Or journals.
But for the longest time, the media made it the nation’s business. They took the story and feasted on its carcass, sucking meat from bone until there was nothing left.
Pairs of women, safe in the knowledge that at the end of every bad date, or party or day, there is a soul out there born of their blood who will love them always.
if only everyone could experience the awe of sisterhood!
‘Anxiety is very rarely rational.’
A truth so ugly, I sometimes struggle to look in the mirror or sit quietly in my own company: it is my fault Olivia has been missing for sixteen years. If I had acted sooner, if I hadn’t frozen in that doorway, if I’d run downstairs and called the police or my parents instead of cowering until they returned, Olivia would have been found. The man in the Venetian mask would have been caught. This is the reason I bend to my mother’s will. I owe my parents the daughter they lost. That stayed lost because of me.
Yikes...
Her brother takes his time joining them, which only serves to further irritate Uncle Robert.
Hold up x3 - the man who was in the bathroom while she was taking a bath??? Ahhhh hail no!
It smells of citrus and coffee.
Wait?! Is there 2 men that smell this way… I feel like theres multiple fake names being thrown around...
‘Where have you been?’
Whaaaat?! Gardening tips before the wherehave you been?!
My stomach flips guiltily, the way it always does when she’s anxious or upset, even when I’m not the cause of it. I’d have taken her up on the lasagne, even if I’d eaten a full roast minutes before she offered, just to please her.
Chronic ppl pleasing has entered the chat!
‘Even so, she’d still have taken it personally if one of us didn’t follow in the family footsteps.’
Why are parents like this?!
The thing is, I feel really flat and grey, and I know I’m not much company.
Relatable!
Unless I agree to do what she wants, I can’t make it right.
Better to let ppl process then to guilt trip you.
At six months old, he has less than a handful of expressions, yet there are so many images of him that Evie’s feed looks like a game of spot the difference … minus the differences. It’s as though her entire personality exited via her vagina along with the baby, and
It do be like that sometimes lol
Yet, I have this niggling feeling he’s not being totally transparent.
Niggling lol
He doesn’t love me enough to fix the damage he has done. He doesn’t love me enough to even try.
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She bites her lip. ‘I have this horrible feeling.’ ‘What?’ And the way she looks at me makes fear rear up, visceral and wretched. ‘We aren’t all getting out of here alive.’
