Our thoughts had been that he had left and was not in a good place mentally. We know that our son is safe now. He's in heaven with his grandparents.

In our minds, he was still alive up until yesterday.

At my place I can really tell when winter has come.. It's when sunlight is pathetically crawling in my courtyard, incapable of reaching my window anymore.

She was a very fine lady, a recluse. We never talked much but just to say hello, that's all.

[There were] no problems in the house before. I've been living here for 24 years now and so everything has been perfectly all right. The fire inspector and the electrical inspector made sure that everything was OK.

I just had enough time for put my pants on and my shoes.