“Luebe,” he said cheerfully, “I hate to tell you, but your plea agreement is in the toilet. Laura is alive!”

“卢贝，”他兴奋地说道，“我真不愿意告诉你，现在，你的申诉协议，就像厕所里用过的手纸一文不值了。劳娜她没死！”

The young woman was airlifted to the Marian Health Center in nearby Sioux City, Iowa. With two bullets lodged in her head, doctors weren’t certain Laura would ever regain consciousness. But her body temperature, for some unknown reason, had dropped only to 35 degrees Celsius. She wasn’t nearly as dehydrated as she ought to have been after being exposed to cold and rain through four nights, not did she seem to have lost much blood. Doctors were astonished.

劳娜被直升飞机运送到衣阿华州苏城附近的玛丽安健康中心治疗。头部被击中而留有两颗子弹在内，医生们都无把握劳娜还会恢复知觉。她的体温下降，但由于某种未知原因，仅仅只降到35℃就不再下降；被抛在野外雨淋挨冻四天四夜，未吃未喝，本该早已脱水而极度虚弱，但她也没有通常的那般严重；似乎也没有过多的失血。简直是个奇迹，医生们个个惊讶不已。

Whether it was all the prayers that had been offered up for her or her own strength and courage, Laura continued to surprise doctors as she recovered her ability to speak and then to walk. She was released from the hospital on November 19, 1994, a month earlier than predicted.

不知是所有那些为她所作的祈祷在起作用，还是她自身的力量和勇气在起作用，劳娜迅速康复，先是恢复了说话，后又能自己站立行走，不断地让医生吃惊。1994年11月19日，她终于痊愈出院，比预期的整整早了一个月。

Still, doctors doubted she would ever be the same as before. And that was what Brian Anderson was counting on. After his plea bargain for second-degree murder was foiled by Laura’s miraculous survival, he pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and attempted murder charges, hoping that Laura, the only eyewitness to the shooting, would be too badly brain-damaged to testify — or too intimidated to try.

她能否恢复如初，医生仍然不敢肯定。当然，这也正是布赖恩·安德森日思夜盼所巴望的。因劳娜奇迹般的复活，他要求降为二级谋杀罪的申诉交易受阻不能确定，指控他绑架和谋杀未遂他又不服；只好寄希望于劳娜，这桩开枪杀人案惟一的目击证人，要不大脑极度受损而无法作证，要不受惊胆怯过度而不敢起诉。

But Laura Kucera surprised him too. On March 3, 1995, she entered a lawyer’s office and sat across the table from Anderson. Coldly, he tried to stare her down, but she would not be bullied. Facing him, she recounted the details of his terror campaign in slow, sometimes broken words, but with unbroken spirit.

并非如他所愿，劳娜·库希拉也让安德森再度吃惊而彻底失望。1995年3月3 日，劳娜步入律师办公室，在安德森对面的桌旁泰然坐下。他用恐吓凶恶的眼光盯着她，想威逼她撤诉，可是这一次，她是不会再让他恫吓倒的。面对着安德森，她详细叙述了他的一系列预谋的暴行，语调缓慢，时断时续，但是，在这语调中却隐含着不屈的精神。

Realizing that she had defeated him, Anderson changed his plea to guilty on four felony counts, including attempted murder. In May 1995 he was sentenced to not less than 85 years in prison.

劳娜彻底击溃了安德森，他被判定犯有四大重罪，谋杀未遂罪是其一。1995年5月，他被判处不少于85年的终身监禁。

Laura Kucera had made good her vow not to let him get away with his crimes.

劳娜·库希拉实现了她的誓言，决不让他逍遥法外。