When I think about it, I did love Remmy. But my hatred for rats grew stronger and stronger – it overpowered my love for Remmy.

The spark I once felt was no longer there.

I don't know why I have found myself in this rat extermination shop with rat poison in my hand.

Eleanor Mae Sarah Hopp was a happy girl. She lived with her mother Sarah Hopp, her aunt Anna-Leigh Worner, her uncle Logan Worner, her siblings and cousin. Nell was 10 years old and her younger sister Anna and younger brother Carl were 6 and her cousin Antony was a baby.

There was once a small house on a prairie, where a family lived. It included a mother, a father, a small girl named Sally, and their pet chicken named Pecaw.