“I think she got so worried about so many things, about money and us, about what she could do to take care of us, about not being able to do anything to make things better—I think it all piled up inside her so that she just quit. She felt so sad and sorry then, and lost—remember how she’d go out and not come back for hours? I think she got lost outside those times, the way she was lost inside.”
″‘How could she get lost?’ Sammy asked. ‘She knew where we were.’
‘Not lost from us,’ Maybeth said.
‘Lost from who?’ Sammy asked.
‘Not lost from anyone,’ Maybeth said. ‘Just lost.‘”