Ann Patchett
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And any time they got to spend any time together was a really happy time.
And then when Abigail's mother divorced Eddie, she didn't just divorce him, she banished him from their lives.
He wasn't allowed to have any contact with Daphne or her sister, Lita.
And since this was a pre-internet age, pre-cell phones, you know, when you're nine years old and your mother says, he's gone, you're never going to see him again.
You just, he's gone.
And after a while you stop looking.
And I think that what's so important is the divorce was such a trauma for her.
It was so terrible.
And she couldn't find him.
There was nothing she could do.
And I just don't think...
she would grow up and think, well, now I have a computer.
Let me see if I could find him.
She's still thinking with her child's brain, this is the way it is.
So anyway, I'm sorry, she's thrilled.
She's thrilled to see Eddie.