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If I had a friend that I "thought" I knew was innocent..I am sure I would be posting here like you are. So no judgement from me...
However, with her drivers license at the house and no $ being spent.. not likely that she would be in any facilty other than Moccassin Bend. And I am sure that the police would have checked that out. Or she would have called her family by now. I don't have kids..but find about the kids to sound highly unlikely.
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ETA.. All docs that I know of want a driver's license when you check in...and $.
Thanks for not judging...I will tell all of you like I told Jbean the other day, if it is proven that Matt is involved I hope they bury him under the jail, and I will gladly drop the first shovel of dirt on him! (Then whack him with the shovel). BUT I can not believe in my heart that he is capable of such.
As for my senario, there could be any number of reasons she didn't tell anyone. maybe she felt overwhelmed...not trying to diss AD here, but I could almost imagine her getting worked up about this and really pushing Gail to do things. Gail doesn't seem to me to be the jump and run with it type, but I would think AD is. could be she just decided spur of the moment, and didn't want to leave a hole where she or someone else could talk her out of it. may be as simple as she didn't want Matt to find out, I just don't know. it is obvious that whatever was going on, she was at least stressed, so possibly she decided she had to get away from all influences and work out how she wanted to handle things.
On a darker side, and please hold your wrath, these are just random possibilities, maybe she really was getting paranoid, delusional, whatever else has been said, I know that many people who have such problems have times when they are perfectly normal, and times when they can't control the problems. I read a document a while back written by a man who was a physcologist, and he also suffered from bi-polar disorder. He talked about how he would feel upset, terrified, paranoid, out of control, etc., but in the back corners of his mind, and in normal times when he wasn't feeling these things, he knew he was loosing control. He said it was like looking in a mirror and seeing this person who needed help, then suddenly realizing that the person was himself. I wish I could remember the exact way he worded it, because I think it sounds exactly like Gail would have felt. he eventually checked himself into a mental hospital and got control of it. I am not saying that Gail was bi-polar etc., but maybe she just realized she had to have a break.
As for the kids, any 12year old can keep a secret from it's parents. ESP. If that secret is this important. most 9year olds can keep secrets too, and these two kids are smart. it would be a lot on them, but they are going through a lot anyway.
as for insurance, etc. Could Gail have been smart enough to not take DL or insurance cards, so she couldn't be found? Not sure how these sorts of places work, but if she shows up with no ID but obviously needin help, do they turn her away? or, maybe she planned enough ahead to have cash for it. again, IDK, but anything is possible.