I've only recently started reading these threads on Madeline so apologises if this has been brought up before but I thought I'd add this to the discussion about the diary.
Now I'm the first to admit I haven't read them before, I have followed the case, being from the uk it's hard to ignore really but not in a really in depth way, at the start I was living in Canada and just thought it was unbelievable that two professional people would leave 3 children alone in an apartment, (actually I think if they had been anyone else and not doctors there would've been a lot of further action taken against them) but I digress
Reading the diary was interesting but this quote really shocked me
"Im so sorry if I/we let you down. I hope you know how fond of you we are and that we would NEVER do anything intentionally that would put you in dangerof any kind. "
Now I don't have children, closet I have is a nephew and godchildren however if anyone of those were missing presumed kidnapped fond would not be what I was writing I love the 3 kids in my life with all my heart and would happily lay down my life to protect them, fond doesn't come into it it's a love which before they were born I didn't know existed (god help me if I ever have kids if that's what it's like with those 3 I couldn't image the amount of love it would make you feel)
I guess what I'm trying to say in a very babbling way is I just find the whole diary forced and unrealistic, I come across as quite a reserved person to some people but my diary shows a whole different side to me, where I let my true self out onto the pages Kate's diary doesn't seem like that.
Interestingly I have once kept a pain diary to show to consultants in hospital, actually it reads pretty similar to Kate's in that it details what I've done for the day if I've drank alcohol to cope with the pain etc...however my private dusty doesn't include that stuff (least not the alcohol bit)
Maybe it's just the way that Kate phrases things, however rioting things about Gerry's performance to the media, and the concern about the lack of hospitality from the police in terms of food and drink just come across as extremely wrong.
Do the patents know what happened to their daughter? Maybe, was she abducted? Maybe are they holding something back, in my opinion yes though what that is I don't know