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>> she had a secret life, that she wasn't showing everybody else. >> but you don't know how long that sucker life was, and neither do i. >> can you accept the idea that maybe there were needs that she felt that she had to meet with men who are not you, but that she still love to you? >> oh no, i believe she did love me. >> she had a secret life, that she wasn't showing everybody else. >> but you don't know how long that sucker life was, and neither do i. i don't know, so i'm not gonna hate her for being human. >> do you blame yourself? >> a little bit. >> 22 summers came and went, john heckle remarried the kids grew up and, they'd start a new lives out west. alisha became a c pro, gianna fishing god. through it, all their mother was never far from their thoughts. >> she missed all those
every time she left us, she kissed us goodbye. >> it was a july morning, alisha, 13 and john, then nine, we're home for summer vacation. election i name, alicia says your mom calls from her job. >> we discussed having dinner and having pork chops. >> that was one of my favorite things she cooked. >> later, they tried to contact their mom at work. >> one of the times we tried to call her, it was around lunchtime, and she had left for lunch. then, we waited in called after lunch, and she still wasn't back to work. >> at 40, kathy heckle head spin laugh for life working at the paper plant in lock haven. >> i can't remember who i was speaking to at the office, but
solve it now? here is josh mankiewicz, with she didn't come home. >> time can be like a river, a long stream of events rushing by. most barely make a ripple, but a few, like the sudden loss of a close friend, a child or a parent, have a way of circling back upon us, in a ceaseless loop of memory in regret. that's the way it's been four john heckel and his sister alisha tell bit. ever since that completely normal morning in 1991, when their mom, katherine dolan heckel kissed him goodbye, left for work and never returned. law do you remember leaving that morning? >> yeah. i mean, like any other day. same routine all the time,
you could hear in their voice that there was some concern, that she hadn't come back. >> and you pick that up? >> yeah. it was not typical for her to not come back, and not tell anybody. >> with their dad out of town, they kept trying to reach their mom, nothing. at about 6:30 that evening, alisha called the grandparents, clarence and margaret dolan. >> i answer the phone, she said graham, can you get some milk? i said, what do you mean? she says, well, mom didn't come home yet, and we don't have milk. i said, alisha, i will be right there. >> and you're thinking,? why >> i didn't know what to think, but as a mother, you know that this is something bad. something very bad.
The "Toy Story" spin-off features a brief kiss between Alisha, voiced by the actress Uzo Aduba, and her wife Kiko. The scene had been originally removed from the film but it was later reinstated, following complaints by Pixar employees.