She got married and had children.

She later divorced.

She moved through the ordinary passage of decades that most lives follow — the routines, the relationships, the work, the gradual accumulation of experience that is the texture of an ordinary human life.

She found work at a Walmart in Cambridge, Minnesota, where she was still working as of a 2018 report.

Cambridge is east of the Twin Cities, different territory from the north-central Minnesota of her childhood and the frozen night that made her briefly famous.

She has expressed in various interviews a relationship to her story that is both honest and slightly bemused.