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"Yes Elizabeth said they tied you to a board and sent you out to sea"

Keturah nodded and said, "I floated for a long time and then there was a storine the kind of storh one

"When I woke up the board was gone and I was laying on the beach of an island even smaller than this one"

She paused for a moment and then with her voice raw she said, "I was marooned on that island for two years I was six years old! I didn't kno to do anything like build a raft or successfully fish The island had one fruit tree on it and that was how I survived along hatever I was lucky enough to catch in the water I couldn't take it! I went crazy or at least I lived in fear of going crazy Finally one day I decided to end it, because I couldn't take living on that miserable little island even one oon and into the sea I swam till I exhausted myself tooand gently I interjected, "That's when Diht he was trying to eat me instead of saveto kill myself anyway"

She looked up at me miserably, "Do you think I'm crazy?"

"No honey I don't think you're crazy"

She looked back down as she said, "So now you knohy I can't coo ashore it overwhelms me and all I can see is the island I was so miserable on as a child I'll stay on this raft while you build the boat" She finished in a set off that easy "Do you knoife and two girls died Keturah?"

She glanced up looking surprised that I would bring that up at a time like this

"Matt said they died in a bad accident and that there wasn't anything you could do"

"That's a veryit Keturah We were at Matt's house for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is a holiday up on the surface When the day was over we left in our car to go hooes very fast Its how a lot of people get around on the surface We were driving along and another car ca and hit us Its driver was drunk My car flipped over a bank and tuine caainst the seat My back was thrown out as well and I couldn't move my arms I was helpless My wife's head had been hit in the crash and she was unconscious She was hung up above me by her seatbelt For hours I felt her blood drip down onto ained consciousness briefly and we talked for a little while before she died My oldest girl's neck was snapped at theI listened to her cry all night long as I told her everything was going to be all right It was very cold that night and she died of shock and exposure an hour before the rescue crew got there I went crazy Keturah I was in a psych ward for sixmy own life For the next seven years up until recently I've been in a prison in my mind every bit as bad as the two years you spent alone on your island Keturah I knohat it's like and I don't want you to stay there any longer! For years I've fought to keep the ood and bad fresh in ht that if I lost the connection that I'd lose everything and really go crazy I lost ht of the accident and it's taken et it back Seven years of et back It wasn't until I cae and I actually started to notice that I was breathing You have been a large part of that change in me Keturah More so than you know You have helped rateful to you! I want to help you Keturah I want to help you like you've helped ht now Keturah, honey, get off the boat and come to me"