QUOTE : Okay. So how is she missing?” “She went for the weekend. That’s what she told me, and she always tells me where she’s going and exactly how long she’ll be gone. But she’s been gone now for a week, and she won’t return my calls or texts, and I know it’s that boy.” That boy. “How long have Krista and that boy been together?” Thinking about it seemed to sicken her. “Six or seven months. I’ve only met him two or three times, but I don’t like him. He has this attitude.” She said “attitude” as if it was another word for “disease.” “Do