Found a plastic sleeve today with some papers in it. There was an article I had written about 10 years ago when my first marriage broke up - thank goodness I escaped from that. And scrumpled up was a receipt from the police for a photograph. Now THAT really put me firmly back in the past.
It was 8 years ago and my daughter had just turned 17. She went swimming to the local pool and never came home. With various things that had happened with her father I was terrified . I rang the police - and of course, since she was over 16 they said she had the right to vanish if she so wanted. A few days later one of them came to the flat and asked for a recent photo of her and had she had her appendix out. My heart sank - it was a mothers worst nightmare. I was given the receipt for it and then the policeman left, I heard him on the radio in the stairwell - they had found a body. I rang my friend who lived in the same block of flats and she dashed over. Three hours later the policeman returned. The girl found could have been Annies twin. She had an appendix scar - Annie didnt.
Even yet I still have nightmares about this. The murderer of that young girl has never been found.
And Annie - well she had met someone and married him within a few weeks Divorced him, had a baby , remarried divorced him and had another baby. She is 25 in a couple of months
Susan
