Seven Years After My Son Disappeared, a Dog Led Me to a Truth I Was Never Meant to Discover

the silence. I stared at the screen for a moment before answering.

“Where are you right now?” my sister Chloe asked, her voice tight with worry. “It’s getting dark out, Colleen. You need to come home.”

I pulled my jacket tighter around my shivering shoulders.

“I don’t know,” I whispered. “I’m sitting in some random park on the edge of town.”

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