Tom Cassidy said that Kimberly’s life as Lori seems increasingly sad and must have been marked with loneliness. “Her birthday was October 16, 1968,” he repeated several times, lamenting that every year when the date came up, Lori was unable to celebrate it. “Can you imagine the burden of all that fakeness? How it all added up?”

Indeed, this must have been a contributing factor to Lori’s escalating madness as her marriage failed and her behavior became erratic. Perhaps as the time went on, and her lies and secrets grew more burdensome, Lori cracked under the pressure of being Kimberly all along. “We can’t fathom someone walking away with an intact family and never reconnecting,” Tom said.