Once when I was horribly sick and feverish, I parked my 3 year old son and 6 year old daughter in front of the tv, put on a movie, and fell asleep. DD woke me about an hour later because baby brother had flooded the basement to a depth of about 2 inches! I was lucky that was all that happened...
I think if I saw a car pull up to a child, it might take me a few seconds to figure out if the driver was her dad/uncle/neighbor before it hit me that he was trying to abduct her. It sounds to me like as soon as he realized it was a problem, he reacted but it was too late. As someone said...
Following the suicide of a teenaged boy, our priest talked to his entire high school. He likened the crisis this boy faced to being on fire -- you are not thinking clearly -- you jump into the deep end of the pool to put the fire out whether you can swim or not. You aren't thinking that it...
I wonder if maybe she typed the text and hit 'SEND' but the text did not go thru for some reason until later in the day -- if she was in a "dead zone" for cell coverage when she typed it, the text wouldn't go out until the phone was back in tower range. Do we know if there are such dead spots...
Tapping the chest is also done at the beginning of the Mass while acknowledging that you are a sinner in need of God's mercy. Where I am, it is mostly the older folks who tap their chest. The younger folks usually just say the words.
I think its possible that there was no screaming or struggle.
When I was about that age, a friend and I were drawing in wet cement behind a school and a man walked up and demanded our names so he could call our parents and tell them we were defacing public property. He wasn't scary or angry...
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