Unraveling Secrets: Benjamin Hale on the Mysterious Disappearance That Haunts the Ozarks
I remember it being shocking and numbing — life feels so unreal to you when you’re a teenager, the intrusion of serious, consequential reality feels a bit two-dimensional. I wish I could remember more specifically. I remember, for some reason, feeling confident that she would be found and she would be okay. If she had died or, perhaps worse, remained lost forever, it would have been a cataclysmic tragedy in my family that would have changed everything forever. It did change everything forever, even with the story ending the best possible way it could have.
