Most of a kidnapping, almost all of it, happens after the child is taken. If the child is taken young enough, and by a person or persons who intend to raise the child as if the child were their own, then for months after the child is taken, with both great caution and great intensity, and then more casually for years after the first months after the child is taken, the kidnappers must work to erase the memory of the child's previous caretaker or caretakers. If there is some continuity between the child's previous situation and the child's situation after the kidnapping - if, say, one of the child's two previous caretakers continues to visit the child after the kidnapping, and assuming the caretaker who is now collaborating with the child's kidnappers is at least careful not to speak too often and too positively about the child's other previous caretaker, especially in the months immediately following the kidnapping - then the kidnappers will likely have an easier time erasing the memory of the child's previous situation than they would have if there were no continuity between the child's two situations. If one of a child's two previous caretakers continues to visit the child after the kidnapping - the child's mother, say, and let's say the other caretaker had been the child's father, from whom the child was kidnapped; let's say the child's mother had been a teenager and a high school dropout when the child was born, and was at the time of the kidnapping only twenty-one, though she might have been twenty-two. (Let's say you've just realized you don't know the time of year the child was kidnapped. Was he taken as leaves fell, or were the trees dead and bare? Or was he taken as life returned to the trees? Or, when the child was taken, had life returned so thoroughly who could think it had ever left, though the sun burned bright and hot, and the thick leaves of the tree, when you brushed them aside to get a better look at the crying toddler in the arms of the white woman, the leaves felt too hot to be alive, though fire leaps like a living thing?) Let's say the kidnappers were the parents of the mother, and though she no longer lived with them, she still thought of herself as their child before she thought of herself as an independent adult. Then the child's kidnappers will find themselves well positioned to concoct a story according to which the caretaker from whom the child was kidnapped had not been present in the child's life before the kidnapping (which in the story was not a kidnapping, but a favor the grandparents did for their daughter), and had in fact villainously abandoned not only the child but also the mother just as the child was about to be born. This story takes years to tell. This story must replace not only the child's life - let's say the child is a boy - before the kidnapping, but his life after the kidnapping. For the safety of everyone involved in the kidnapping, least of all the boy's safety, he must never stop telling the story. The long work of the kidnapping is turning the boy into a machine for protecting his kidnappers. The final test of the kidnapping's success is whether he protects them after he leaves them.
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