Sadly, Marion McCleneghan, the 40-year-old Park Slope woman who has been missing since February 7th or 8th has not been found.

Last night at a dinner party I attended, a man who lives on 14th Street in south Park Slope, Marion’s block,  told me that he heard from a neighbor that Marion had given her two beloved dogs away to her ex-husband just days before she disappeared.

That neighbor saw Marion on the street without her dogs and asked where they were.  It struck her as very strange that this woman, who she’d seen for years walking her dogs, would give them away.

According to the Brooklyn Paper, Marion left  her money and two packs of unopened cigarettes in her apartment. She was last see wearing jeans, a bright-colored shirt, a baseball cap and a “big pocketbook.” She had her hair down.

As the days pass hope recedes, deep concern and morbid curiosity rises.

Missing since, February 8th, Marion was last  seen at the La Dolce Vita grocery store on the corner of 14th Street and 7th Avenue.  She told the owner:  “Goodbye — you won’t be seeing me anymore,”’ and she was crying.

Before that, Marion was seen at a party at her boyfriend’s apartment on 14th Street around 2AM on February 7th. His name is Richard Eric Sosa and he told police that they’d had a fight.

According to Barbara Sullivan, Marion’s mother who is frantically trying to find her daughter, she was planning to spend the night at Sosa’s on February 7th but they had a fight and she left his apartment in a huff. Sosa has a scratch on his face.

Sullivan told the Brooklyn Paper: “She was having a rough year — first she lost a friend, then her father and two aunts.”  She had just started a new job in real estate.

How does someone disappear into thin air? Is it really possible that no one has seen her anywhere since February 8th?

Tonight friends wondered if this woman  might be the victim of a terrible crime.

Others wondered if she killed herself.  Someone suggested that she jumped off the Staten Island ferry (an allusion to the way Spalding Gray killed himself).

With no information, there is only conjecture, rumor, hearsay, gossip. We ruminate on her absence and wonder what really happened. We just don’t know. But our hearts go out to her family and friends, who are still searching.

If you have any information about Marion call 718-636-6483, case #109, Complaint #445, Detective Gibbons assigned.