you won't answer your phone...
Aug 10, 2017
Mom
to me
Hi baby. I know you're away right now and I want you to enjoy yourself, but I haven't been able to get ahold of you and there's something we really need to talk about. I know its probably the worst thing I can do, to write all of this in an email, but I need to be the one to tell you first, before you start seeing it on the news. Because I know its going to blow up any moment and you deserve to hear it from someone who loves you. And I love you, so very much, Laurel. Please don't ever forget that.
You mother has been paroled. We were afraid this was going to happen, but we were told that it was going to take some time, and apparently that time is up. Your father and I got a call late last night that the paperwork had gone through and the DA had accept the terms of parole and release. We always thought we had the law on our side when it came to this, but after so 18 years, she apparently decided it was time to start talking.
She's given them information about the organization. Okay, about the cult. She's given them names of people who got away in the raid. And she's given them detailed information about how they planned on taking care of the problem that was the children. If they ever went down for something, they knew the children would be a liability. They were never supposed to make it out of the compound. You. You were never supposed to get out of the compound. Alive.
All I know are sketchy details, but it seems that the men that got away had ties to individuals who could "take care of the problem." What the DA thinks that means is you're not safe. He thinks the upper eshelon of the cult basically put a hit on you kids. And for all we know that's still true to this day. We don't know if they got the word out to their contacts, or how they know what children made it out and were placed where, but, honey, please. be careful.
I wish that were all, but there's more. Your mother has sworn up and down that she's not your birth mother. She says you were given to her as a gift. I didn't want to say anything until we knew more, but it looks like you were actually born in Canada and either given up or taken away shortly after your birth. We tracked down a number of hospitals that reported such events around the time you would have been born and one in particular indicated that the mother in question had been there at least once before, also to give birth.
I guess... I guess that means you could have family out there. And I think that's important for you to know.
But I just wanted... to tell you I love you and just want you to be careful.
You'll always be mine, Laurel. Never forget that.
Love, mom