“And people get disappeared all the time. But because they’re poor, nobody pays attention. Everybody’s used to poor people disappearing. Maybe they ran off, maybe they went to prison, maybe they got involved with the wrong kind of man. Maybe home was dangerous. Maybe they were—” He lowered his voice. “Maybe they were like us and needed to go someplace new, someplace safe, and knew nobody at home would want to hear about it. We disappear all the time.”
