Both Danny and the blond man attack but Danny dies of several gunshot wounds, before Stefan kills the man and tells Laura what to say, like years ago at the grocery store. Years later, Danny, Laura and Chris are saved from a horrific accident by the blond man's (revealed to be named Stefan) intervention. The birth was difficult, making it so she will not be able to have any children in the future. After their marriage Laura becomes a celebrated author of several books and gives birth to a boy, Christopher Robert. After a botched attempt at being her secret admirer they agree to date and over time, fall in love. Shortly thereafter, Laura turns 13 and is moved to another orphanage for older children, and receives the devastating news that Ruth was caught in a fire in McIlroy and died.Īt college, Laura's creative writing brings her to the attention of Danny, a naive man who has fallen in love with her from afar. Sheener comes to their home one afternoon Laura is able to fend him off and eventually kill him, but the shock of discovering the scene causes her new foster mother to suffer a fatal heart attack, sending Laura back to the orphanage. This scares him off for some time, until Laura is sent to live with the Dockwielers, with whom she quickly forms a bond. After several disturbing incidents, her mysterious angel visits Sheener and brutally beats him. Laura is eventually sent to live with a foster family that exploits her, so she purposely behaves badly and they send her back to the orphanage. However, due to past experience the twins warn Laura that reporting Sheener, also known as 'The White Eel' or 'Eel' for short, will do more harm than good. Willy becomes infatuated with Laura due to her uncommonly good looks, haunting her wherever she goes in the orphanage. She also meets Willy Sheener, a frightening child molester who is also the maintenance man and custodian. Laura is sent to live in the McIlroy orphanage, where she is housed with a set of twins, Thelma and Ruth, who later become her best friends. At her father’s funeral Laura sees the stranger watching over her yet again and begins to think he is her guardian angel, along with an unnamed man calling for her when she tries to follow him. In 1967, Bob Shane dies of a heart attack.

When Laura is eight years old, a junkie attempts to rob her father's convenience store however the blond stranger reappears, saving them both and instructing them on what to tell the police. Her mother dies in childbirth, though Laura is a perfectly healthy, exceptionally beautiful baby, and she is left to be raised by her father Bob Shane. Paul Markwell from attending to the difficult and complicated delivery.

As Laura Shane is born in January 1955, during a freak lightning storm, a mysterious blond stranger (Stefan) prevents a drunken Dr.

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