My Mother-in-Law Left a Blue Notebook in Our Hallway Closet—After My Son Was Born, I Finally Learned What She Had Been Recording Inside It

Mark wanted to go alone.

Also a bad idea.

If Eleanor had entered the house recently, nobody needed to walk into an uncertain situation just to satisfy curiosity.

So Mark called his sister, Diane.

She lived nearby.

Even that required caution.

“Do not go inside if Mother’s car is there.”

Good.

PART 22 — DIANE

Diane was twenty-nine.