what was your dream?

 In that "Jailbreak" true story, the ending is not happy for Vicky White.  She never returned from that adventure - Casey White did return; he's in jail.

I don't think he wanted to escape as badly as she did.  Even though she wasn't in jail or any other place one would need to escape from.  But she wanted to escape something.  

        Before they made their break, she got rid of all her stuff - giving away big items to co-workers - and sold her house and moved back in with her parents.  At the age of 56.  See, she never intended to return from this runaway project.

Run-away, with a man who says you're his "queen," and he loves you.

My theory is, she had some type of clinical depression.  Low-key enough so that she was functioning, and it went undetected, undiagnosed, and untreated.

Three things she said got my attention and made me wonder.

They were said during the film, not all at the same time, but at different points.

- In a phone conversation with Mr. White, she said in a mildly sad, defeated tone:  "I hate Christmas."

- In another recorded phone conversation he asked her, What was your dream of what you would like to be, when you were young?  She answered that she "always wanted to be a stripper."  That's what I would have been "if I'd been pretty enough."

- In a conversation with a co-worker about retirement, Vicky said, "I'm gonna go out with a bang."

She had enough money, her own home, a retirement-pension thingamajig, however that works...  "Go out with a bang" - ?  Evidently she was not looking forward to retirement.

        freedom?

        flexibility in your schedule?

        relax, read, write as much as you want to?

        work on political campaigns?

                Retirement.  What's not to like?

But see, now I'm speaking for myself, not her.

There are people who do not have a great enthusiasm for life.

It isn't easy to understand.

        ...Well but then that's where the "depression" theory comes in, I guess....

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