“She might still be alive,” he says. “They haven’t found her body yet. It’s been a week now.” “That’s true.” “And the other girl … she was missing for, what, three days before they found her?” “Yeah,” I say, swirling the wine in my glass. “Yeah, three days. So it sounds like you’ve been following all of this, then?” “Yeah, you know. It’s been on the news. Kind of hard to avoid.” “Even in New Orleans?”

