months. it s been about 72 days. how are you doing, the two of you, with all of this? i mean, how are you holding up? it s just weird. just trying to keep the word out. trying to stay positive. right. trying to stay positive is the hardest. getting in bed and thinking, my gosh i think, i hope michelle s in bed. i mean you clearly have decided that she still alive. it s not over, and it s not over until we get home. so that very evening, they hosted a fund-raiser at a nearby restaurant. and a few days later, the 80 50 that michele was disappeared, the san diego family, again, piled into their cards just after midnight and made the long drive up the coast to launch the eight search. time had faded, the photos tape to the car. the creek searched desperately far from where our body might be dumped, or a woman might be