The hardest point to determine is when the Disappeared would say they disappeared, since they never disappear to themselves. All you know for sure is that they’re not where they used to be, with you. And since there are so many missing people who wanted nothing more than to vanish, it is unclear whether you, the Left Behind, are suffering a hardship or committing an injustice when you canvas the neighborhood and staple posters to light poles and pray or ask for prayer. What kind of just God, after all, would help you hunt somebody down? And in the event that you stop searching—stop waiting,
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