SIXTY SEVEN-- A HOUSE OR A HOME?

It was late at night when I reached home, with mom. She drove us straight home and not to Miranda's house. When she saw me at that park where Robin left me, she looked as though she had just seen a ghost. She told me that she had hesitated coming to me when I called her to come meet me at a park near Miranda's house. It was weird. "I thought it was someone faking your voice" she had said. "I thought I'd never see you again. It was strange seeing you alone like that at a park, with a shawl on your body" she had cried, scooping me up in her arms. It seemed to me that it wasn't only my condition making her cry. She actually looked so stressed I wanted to cry too, and I expected that she would ask me what had happened or who my abductor was, or how I got lost, but she just stood there, cried and carried me in her arms , straight into the passenger seat. She probably felt the whole world spinning round her while she struggled to get a grasp on it. I didn't cry. I just held on to her wais