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14 pages, Audiobook
First published August 29, 2023
Life isn't geometry; terrible, life-changing moments don't happen predictably, at the bottom of a linear slope.
It’s depressing, infuriating, and fascinating all at once—the herculean efforts people will exert to not believe what they’re seeing, to reject anything that doesn’t fit into the narrative they’ve been given about how the world works.
We didn’t call the police right away. Later, I would blame myself, wonder if things might have turned out differently if I hadn’t shrugged it off, insisting Dad wasn’t missing missing but just delayed, probably still in the woods looking for Eugene, thinking he’d run off somewhere.
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The thing about the mystery of Dad’s disappearance is that there is an answer. Something happened to Dad. The problem is that Dad might be the only person who knows the answer.