Kate McCann is consumed with the hunt for her daughter. Every day she will spend 3 hours reading documents, looking for the vital clue which will answer the question that has tortured her and Gerry for 21 agonising months.
Where is our missing Madeleine?Kate McCann sips her tea and then turns another page from the mountain of paperwork, looking for the one clue that could spark a breakthrough in the search for her missing daughter.
As her twins Sean and Amelie enjoy playing with friends at nursery, their mum combs through thousands of police documents stacked up in massive files hoping to latch on to any nugget of information such as the names of witnesses that were never interviewed.
Raw pain is still sometimes clearly etched on her face. But this is Kate's life now.
No longer working as a GP, she has dedicated herself to the task of unearthing clues that will lead her to her daughter Madeleine who vanished 21 months ago.
A family member said: "She is there virtually every morning. It's her routine for two or three hours every day while the twins are in nursery. Sometimes I feel she is exhausting herself. I wish she would take a break. But she won't listen. She is driven, consumed with the task and the goal of finding Madeleine."
While the agony of not knowing where Madeleine is or what has happened to her eats up Kate and husband Gerry, the couple still have to provide a normal family life for Sean and Amelie. Tomorrow, the twins celebrate their fourth birthday and their parents will make sure it is a special day full of fun, laughter, gifts and games.
But, inevitably, one heartbreaking thought will haunt the couple throughout: "We never got to do this with Madeleine."
