[pyx]

Damon: "Brenda was in the shower when they arrived. I remember because I could hear the water running upstairs from where I sat playing video games with the boys, while Danielle was hunched over her diary at the table, where she had been for two hours previously. But I could hear the water, I could definitely hear the water."

If Brenda was upstairs in the shower, who was with Danielle when she went to "Boo" Denise and Barb when they arrived ?

What seven year old have you ever heard of that spends TWO SOLID HOURS writing in a diary ?

[Politicalmom]

My older daughter is six and a half. She spends maybe ten minutes "writing a letter". My son is eight. He has a great vocabulary, and is very articulate, but give him a pencil, and he is reduced to counting words trying to make his sentences longer.

I was a teacher, and I have NEVER known a child of seven to have a "journal" that they weren't forced to keep. : )

After all, how much deep and profound thinking does a normal child do? She sounds like a VERY lonely child to me.
A young child shouldn't have to tell things to a book, she should be telling her parents. My kids have motor mouths, although my daughter is a quiet, shy child. But with Mommy and Daddy, every thought spills out of her head like a waterfall.

I wonder what secrets poor Danielle had?