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TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2013
MORNING
I’m on the 8:04, but I’m not going into London. I’mgoing to Witney instead. I’m hoping that being therewill jog my memory, that I’ll get to the station andI’ll see everything clearly, I’ll know. I don’t hold outmuch hope, but there is nothing else I can do. Ican’t call Tom. I’m too ashamed, and in any case,he’s made it clear: he wants nothing more to dowith me.
Megan is still missing; she’s been gone more thansixty hours now, and the story is becoming nationalnews. It was on the BBC website and Daily Mailthis morning; there were a few snippets mentioning iton other sites, too.
I printed out both the BBC and Daily Mail stories;I have them with me. From them I have gleaned1 thefollowing:
Megan and Scott argued on Saturday evening. Aneighbour reported hearing raised voices. Scottadmitted that they’d argued and said that he believedhis wife had gone to spend the night with a friend,Tara Epstein, who lives in Corly.
Megan never got to Tara’s house. Tara says the lasttime she saw Megan was on Friday afternoon attheir Pilates class. (I knew Megan would do Pilates.)According to Ms. Epstein, “She seemed fine, normal.
She was in a good mood, she was talking aboutdoing something special for her thirtieth birthday nextmonth.”
Megan was seen by one witness walking towardsWitney train station at around seven fifteen onSaturday evening.
Megan has no family in the area. Both her parentsare deceased.
Megan is unemployed2. She used to run a small artgallery in Witney, but it closed down in April lastyear. (I knew Megan would be arty.)Scott is a self-employed IT consultant3. (I can’tbloody believe Scott is an IT consultant.)Megan and Scott have been married for threeyears; they have been living in the house onBlenheim Road since January 2012.
According to the Daily Mail, their house is worthfour hundred thousand pounds.
Reading this, I know that things look bad for Scott.
Not just because of the argument, either; it’s just theway things are: when something bad happens to awoman, the police look at the husband or theboyfriend first. However, in this case, the police don’thave all the facts. They’re only looking at thehusband, presumably because they don’t know aboutthe boyfriend.
It could be that I am the only person who knowsthat the boyfriend exists.
I scrabble around in my bag for a
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| adj.失业的,没有工作的;未动用的,闲置的 | |
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consultant
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bloody
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scrap
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disappearance
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trespassing
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helping
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hazy
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retrieve
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retrieved
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deranged
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sip
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sperm
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miscarriage
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pregnancy
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mantle
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virility
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abortion
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surgical
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daydreamed
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frustrated
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isolated
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misery
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chubby
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maniac
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outrageous
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erratically
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replacement
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unwilling
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soliciting
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engrossed
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thwarted
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