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It began that evening. She had cooked dinner that afternoon and had done her little chores and what

have you. And so she asked that she could go and visit her boyfriend. She had a boyfriend at the time

who lived near the recreation center where she worked at. And so because,

you know, she had done all of that, my parents allowed her to go and visit him, which it meant

she had to take one bus and go straight up Martin Luther King to get to his house. And so I remember Diane going there,

and I remember my parents telling her,

you have to be back home by 10 o'clock.

We used to have a strict rule

that when the street lights came on,

we had to come inside.

It's now, after 10 o'clock. My father worked at the Lorton Reformatory

in Northern Virginia at the time, and he worked the graveyard shift, so he had gone to work. But my

mom was home, and she had noticed that, you know, it's 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, and 12 o'clock,

and Diane's still not home.

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