never officially reported missing but found all the same. They became the bags of bones along highways. At borders. Under bridges. Across state lines, on the routes that truckers favor. You don’t always get the answers you’re seeking, but sometimes you realize you need to take a step back so you can move on to the next search and work on how to address the most ignored or underfunded cases: decedents at the Southern border; the unidentified, unhoused, stolen ancestral remains lying in museum collections; the unmarked graves of Native children at residential schools; boxes of bones sitting on
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