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I mean, how bad can a person really be at age 14?

Who said she was bad??!! She's probably very sweet and normal and I feel very, very sorry for her if she felt she had to get away.

Look, what you're saying about her maybe "feeling she had to get away" is not outside the realm of possibility.

Let's suppose that's exactly what happened. Who in their right mind would still be sheltering her now? And, at the risk of drawing more comments from Lakey about the best color of pajamas to run away in, when have we ever heard that any of Elizabeth's clothes, other than the shoes, were missing? I can't see her just leaving abruptly, w/o maybe taking clothes, or female sanitary supplies, a ring perhaps, anything--haven't you ever had to go somewhere and had to wait while a teenaged girl got ready? They don't even go to Taco Bell without at least taking about 3 different shades of lipstick. And we never heard that anything except the shoes was missing.

If she was "desperate to get out," why didn't she run away from school? School was still in session when she disappeared, you know.