A week passed by in which David was seldom out of his mother’s thoughts. By way of a distraction, she took herself to the hairdressers and asked for something completely different and was delighted with the results. The next day, she began to pen David a letter that went through numerous drafts before she felt she’d written something appropriate under the circumstances. She told him that she loved him very much, and that she was looking forward to seeing him very soon, but left out the guilt ridden apology for sending him to Aunt Martha’s where his normal life as a boy would be turned completely upside down.