"They were very good to me. It's amazing I'm not spoiled completely rotten, but they drilled in some personal responsibility along with giving me everything I wanted." It worked out very well. They didn't even mind when Maggie walked away from the family business to live alone in the woods and make her living writing poetry and porn. They just wanted their daughter safe and happy.

"If I get home, I get home. I'm not willing to give up on that possibility. But you don't need to apologize, both because you didn't do it and because I missed you just as much as you missed me." She pauses, then adds, "I need to hear about what I've fallen into, when you're ready. It doesn't have to be right this minute. Soon, though."