1. It had become a far too common an event in her life.

She
has specifically placed the key to the box in a special place
so that she wouldn't lose it and know exactly where it was
when the key was needed. Now that she needed to open
the box, she had absolutely no idea where that special spot
she placed the key might be.

2. It really shouldn't have mattered to Betty. That's what she

kept trying to convince herself even if she knew it mattered
to Betty more than practically anything else. Why was she
trying to convince herself otherwise? As she stepped
forward to knock on Betty's door, she still didn't have a
convincing answer to this question that she'd been asking
herself for more than two years now.

3. Dave wasn't exactly sure how he had ended up in this

predicament. He ran through all the events that had lead to
this current situation and it still didn't make sense. He
wanted to spend some time to try and make sense of it all,
but he had higher priorities at the moment. The first was
how to get out of his current situation of being naked in a
tree with snow falling all around and no way for him to get
down.

4. Finding the truth wouldn't be easy, that's for sure. Then

there was the question of whether or not Jane really wanted
to know the truth. That's the thing that bothered her most. It
wasn't the difficulty of actually finding out what happened
that was the obstacle, but having to live with that
information once it was found.
5. I'm heading back to Colorado tomorrow after being down in
Santa Barbara over the weekend for the festival there. I will
be making October plans once there and will try to arrange
so I'm back here for the birthday if possible. I'll let you know
as soon as I know the doctor's appointment schedule and
my flight plans.