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...Lucie Blackman, wearing high heels and a silver and black ensemble coordinated to match her Samsonite luggage, disembarked from a 13-hour Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Tokyo and stepped into Japan's national nightmare. A former British Airways stewardess who prided herself on being, "chic, sophisticated and smart," Lucie sometimes did her hair even before going to the gym for a workout. So it made sense she would have her hair freshly coiffed now, the natural blond mane cut straight and falling across her striking, almost patrician English features like a curtain of glass beads. Concealing her blue...
...Lucie Blackman hated it all when she first arrived. The hours. The pressure to go out on dohans. She had worked for two years on BA's long-haul routes to Africa and the Americas, but she had seldom been away from her family home - where she still lived with her mother and younger sister and brother - in the London suburb of Sevenoaks, Kent, for more than four days in a row. After arriving in Tokyo, she phoned and e-mailed family almost daily, telling them she was homesick...
...last time Sophie Blackman saw her older sister alive had been at 4 a.m. the day Lucie left for Japan. Before going to the airport, Lucie had climbed into Sophie's bed. She had intended to give Lucie a card wishing her good luck, but instead she produced an 18-page letter. "Lucie had a beautiful soul," says Sophie. "I wanted to tell her what she meant...
...That Monday when Jane Blackman received the call, she phoned Sophie at work. Sophie made arrangements to fly to Tokyo. Tim Blackman, planning for the worst, went to his bank and secured a line of credit for $29,000. Ultimately, he would spend nearly $145,000 - most of it contributed by relatives - searching for Lucie...
...Blackman, a teaching fellow for CS161: "Operating Systems," says that because he already knew almost everyone taking the class, there was no way he could avoid teaching and grading his friends...