Michael Bach
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you know, if they followed me.
But yeah, you know, I can say definitively the thought of that was what kept me there too.
I was afraid to find out that they'd follow me.
That would mean I'd never be rid of them.
And if that was true...
I didn't know if I could face that.
As long as I stayed in the cabin, it felt like life had been put on pause.
It was safer to stay in the pause.
I can go back to Baltimore.
The doctors are going to say I'm really sick, either physically or mentally.
But they couldn't get at me in the cabin.
That night I was listening to the weather report and I heard the kitchen door open.
And I went in there, and I saw the family outside in the back.
It was maybe 10 degrees, but I went out.
They were standing near where the woods began, but the little boy wasn't there.
There was a bunch of disturbed dirt where they were, like a grave.
And their heads were bowed, like they were at a funeral.