His unique combination of nature and nurture led to his own schizophrenia; he was diagnosed in 1992, when he was just seventeen years old. Two years later, he got out of my mom’s car at a stoplight and walked away. We never saw him again. He’s been on the national missing-persons registry ever since. Louis is what brought me to Bayview Hunters Point. I see his face, his potential, his fundamental worth in the faces of my patients.
