Page 5 of The Silent Appeal

She won a scholarship to Juilliard in New York, left home the day after her eighteenth birthday, and has only been back a few times.

10:21 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Like for Dad’s funeral, when she arrived from Heathrow at dawn, crying uncontrollably.

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10:23 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Not because of Dad. Because she was missing an audition for 42nd Street. that afternoon.

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10:24 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Mum said Dad would’ve wanted her to follow her dream and seeing as I was home from college, she should make the audition if she could.

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10:25 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Only the 1 p.m. flight would get her back to JFK in time, so she brought her case to the crematorium and left in a taxi straight after the service.

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10:26 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

She didn’t get the part. But she was in a few off-Broadway musicals, then worked on cruise ships before a knee injury forced a move into teaching and choreography.

10:27 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Did something backstage with Cirque du Soleil and then worked for a theatrical agent in LA.

10:29 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

For the last ten years she’s run her own company with a friend, supplying entertainment for cruise ships. She was doing a job she loved in an amazing place.

10:31 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Now she’s back “for a while” and won’t say why. Any ideas?

10:35 a.m. Kevin wrote:

You want my opinion? Really?

10:38 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Maybe it’s her love life? She only ever seemed to date dancers and they were always moving on to the next job. Could she have split up with someone she thought was “the one”?

10:40 a.m. Kevin wrote:

You do realize who this is you’re texting?

10:44 a.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Yes. What do YOU, Kevin Rupert MacDonald, think has gone so wrong that your sister-in-law is back in Lockwood?

10:49 a.m. Kevin wrote: