Most often when police put out missing-person alerts, they are for teens who people figure will end up being found at some party or just hanging around. Somewhere in a heap of other lost teens trying to get even more lost. If the missing person is older, you suspect that they’ve walked into the sea or committed a crime or been murdered. Sometimes, you’ll see an announcement a few days later that they’ve turned up again. Sometimes not. I’ve often thought about disappearing myself, but only when I’ve been certain that someone would notice. When I was a child, I plotted my escape. Pictured bare
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