Law and Order SVU

I know I've said this before, but I just have to say it again: my life is honestly an episode of Law and Order SVU! AD17 is on the run yet again, and this time the intel that we are receiving is absolutely unbelievable. She either disappeared with a) two older men from our community or b) two drug dealers from the big city who trade drugs for sex. She was then either in town 1, town 2, or town 3 (all pinged towers from her social media site) but  didn't stay in any of them long enough for the police from any of those three different towns to track her down.  One bio aunt says she is with the other and vice versa... And the latest... wait for it....two messages place her at the home of her bio aunt's ex boyfriend, who is in his 30s, and who apparently harbors people who are in hiding in his storage unit! I couldn't make these things up...   Oh, and she continues  to pop onto  social media here and there saying she is  "fine" and "safe" and to take the damn missing person notice off Facebook because she is not going home. I so want to respond with something nasty but I'm holding my tongue. Does anyone have a connection with the writers of SVU?! ;p

Pressure Cooker

I have come to the realization (or only now remembering...) that trying  to live a "normal" life for my trauma kiddos is so difficult for them that they inevitably have to "blow"  to bring themselves back to their normal. Just like a pressure cooker. The weeks since Lynn's return from her Thanksgiving "mini-run" were this for her. Too many relatively normal family interactions and activities finally reached their breaking point and the blow up was big. No contact for almost 48 hours, reports that  she is with drug dealers from NY or older men from our neighborhood - exchanging sex for drugs. When she finally checked in briefly this morning - after being badgered by many - she was sullen and distant saying she was fine and was old enough to choose this life. State Police are working hard to locate her. LIT team meeting this afternoon. We badly need to find her an alternative placement to finish out her Senior year.