It was from this injury that the teenager almost died on the operating table—twice, police tell me.Blood pooled inside the boy's body cavity, and this restricted the movement of his diaphragm, which stopped the functioning of his lungs.After two months of communicating electronically, Charlie invites Annie to meet him at the mall.While her parents are dropping off Annie's brother at college, Annie goes to the mall and awaits her first face-to-face meeting with Charlie.

(These are not their real names.)"I love you, bro," Mark told his younger friend as he plunged in the knife."Mark did it once, stood up, holding me, did it again," the victim told police. People will hear, please be quiet," the older teenager told him."You've killed me!

For days he lay on a respirator, treated with painkillers and antibiotics, saying little.

In Wythenshawe Hospital, where he spent more than a week, John asked to see a psychiatrist, but this was Britain, home of the dilatory National Health Service.

When he appears, she discovers that he is a man in his 40s.

Annie is upset at first, but he charms her into going with him to a motel.