new developments.

hello everyone!

we just returned to berlin from our exciting three week stay in the united states, courtesy of the united states justice department. i testified against the man who kidnapped me last january, which was a little bit terrible, but thanks to the excellent support of my family, phil, quile, and friends, the guy was convicted on all counts and will more than likely spend the rest of his life in federal prison. you can read the federal press release here. once again, the local news got the story completely wrong. everyone wants me to write a book about it, which i am considering. i think i should start by writing about the whole thing and sort of seeing where that goes. i'll keep everyone posted.

anyway, we flew in to raleigh, went right to charlotte to do pretrial things (reviewing & practicing my testimony, basically) and spent a few days there in between mostly sitting and waiting on court things in charlotte. we got to come back to raleigh on the weekends, which was nice. while we were in raleigh, we got to see allie & joe and stephanie (who came over to my parents' house, made gingerbread fema trailers and ate cookies with me in the middle of the night). in charlotte, we mostly hung out at my aunt & uncle's house, in the courthouse, or with kyle s. cameron.

it would have been so bien to see more people but it was wholly chaotic and stressful and so i am completely sorry for not seeing all the people!

xoxoxo