A Postcard from Egypt Arrived 20 Years After My Daughter Vanished — The Truth Was Worse Than I Imagined

why did Dad say you left?”

The question struck like a blow.

“What?”

Tara reached into a box labeled MOM and removed a bundle of envelopes tied together with string.

“I wrote these every birthday,” she said. “Nine to eighteen.”

“I never got them.”

“I know.”

She opened one.

“Dear Mom,” she read, her voice tight. “Dad says you went back to America because you continue reading …