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It was a feeling I could never have braced myself for. And now, with another phone call, that feeling, the cinder blocks and the stomp, was back. Have you by any chance heard from Elijah in the last 24 hours? It could help us a great deal, and it would help your son. It could mean a great deal of inconvenience for you and your family as well if in fact you have any information we may need and you withhold it from us. This was a very selfish thing your son did, not taking into consideration what it would put you all through. Who the hell was this guy to assume I knew something and that he was entitled to it if I did.

He was a taker; they take people and things from your life. If there was something for me to know, it was mine and I would protect it. Of course all of this came to me after I hung up. All I could stand to do during the brief conversation was to push back the awful force of fear and trembling, and the disruption, back in my life again.

What are you telling me? Are you telling me Elijah escaped? I looked out at the wet road, rain still falling softly as it had almost all day, the clouds still dark and stormy, and there were two men sitting in a black vehicle right out in front of my house in the spot my husband usually parks.

One of them had a phone in his hand, and gave me a short and slight little wave. I let them come in, just long enough to let them tell me what I needed to know. One of them was a little pushy, the other one a little nicer—more polite. An old trick even I knew.


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Not as Elijah, not as my son, just as the fugitive. They also asked if he had given me any prior information regarding the event.

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They told me then that Elijah, or rather that inmate DeAngelo and two other men had found a way to breach the wall of the maximum security correctional facility he was being housed in. Thinking about it just sent shudders through me. That was when the cinder blocks collapsed, again. I knew things would never be normal again. It was maybe one of those dueling coincidences that flower during crises. One of those moments you would note as remarkable any other time, but this time is passed over as insignificant because of the urgency of the moment.

The U. Marshals…and Eli…over a wall! They had stopped by his job at the little airport where he welded airplane hangars. I knew what David meant. He meant it would mean capture, it might mean death. And I knew it would be dumb to try to steal a few moments for myself because there would be a federal task force waiting to snatch him. Why are you calling me when you should be running! After I hung up with David, the phone calls came and overflowed like running water from a bathtub.

We got calls from neighbors and friends, all watching it on TV at the same time I was. And not much later after I declined to talk to them, cars and news vans all started showing up at the house. For some reason I had this vision of him hiding underneath a porch, shivering in the rain, waiting to get caught, trying not to though, just needing a little help. When David got home, he had to fight his way through the wet jungle of news people and cameramen, neighbors and general onlookers who had caught a glimpse of our house on TV.

When he finally got inside the house, he just looked at me, and I looked at him, probably the same look the two of us shared that one other time, when things got to be this desperate. Pretty much anybody Eli had been in contact with in the last 15 years, old friends and friends he met in prison, friends and family of friends, or anybody they could find in the network.

They came with sheets of paper with generic demands. If they were refused entry, they came in with battering rams! It had been years since they were even on speaking terms. She had a new husband and new babies, but she too got the battering rams at two in the morning, with babies screaming with peace upon them.

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It was a cyclone, and everyone who ever knew him expected it to blow into their world eventually. In the following days the hysteria started to fade.


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    6. The news trucks left, they found a better story to chase down, one about a couple on the run from a convenience store robbery, with a recovered suicide pact signed by the both of them. They were running across the country in a stolen Toyota. It was pure hoopla, and America was enthralled, just enough so that the onlookers all left. But the dark car, with a different dynamic duo sipping coffee in its comfort every day, switching off every eight hours, never left.

    It sat there without moving—morning, noon, and night.

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    Whether I felt abandoned or beat down by the person I had given my life up for. Or if I felt proud that my son had beaten these people—outsmarted the monsters who still thought it was alright to keep human beings in cages. To feel like something natural inside of him was fighting against the false conventions of our society. It was really just a stream of thoughts that came as new stimuli were introduced, which for a while, was constantly. David internalized it all. He always did that during crisis.

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    He never cried when Eli was going through trial. It was a part of him that made him seem sturdy and reliable. But sometimes that bothered me, made him seem too passive. But one of us had to be steady, not erupt or implode like I felt I was on the verge of every day. And so I waited. I thought I would get a call from Eli.

    I knew he knew better, knew all about the risks, but I thought he would send a message disguised in some clever way to let me know he was going to be alright, and that he loved us, loved me. It was the least he could offer his tortured mother; he knew what burdens this would create. It made the days long, waiting, the elasticity of time and how it stretches itself across the universe, and shows us its depths when we try to understand it. I thought he was being hidden by one of the obscure associates he had made over the years whose names and faces had blurred as they passed through.

    It was excruciating though. I was used to a phone call and a visit every week, so did his grandma. She sent a letter for every day he was locked up. They were the ways we dealt with the time and with his absence, and the reality of our own old age. We always just wanted him to come home, even though we knew it was a long ways away.

    So to compensate, we did whatever it took to make him, and ourselves, feel like a family, connected.

    We even blew a bunch of money on an empty appeal that just disappeared into the paper ocean of the justice system. I remember when he was in the county jail, how everything was so frantic and rushed. The previous year he had spent in jail had taken so much out of him and out of all of us. He was pretty open about it. After all the court dates, and housing movements, and spooky environments, I understood.

    It must seem crazy to hear a mother say she understood the idea of her only child talking to her about taking his life. But I knew that after a lifetime of fighting my own deep depressions through some of the coldest winters, and passing this depression down to my child; knowing the depths he would see, that he might collapse into the earth where climbing out may never be possible. I was clobbered by it, paralyzed. I told him I understood, and that I sort of expected it.

    It was something that held me captive, the realization that our time was almost over. The 12 months he spent in the county jail had been this cleansing experience where we were as a family able to clean out our closets and revisit all the great moments, and the rough ones too.