Unraveling Shadows: The Chilling Truth Behind Eddy Crane’s Disappearance and a Family’s Dark Secrets
This is the double-edged sword of anyone who writes about loss. The wound is never fully healed. We can never get back what was lost, but we can create new ways to move forward, scars and all.
Crane writes, “I’d sought family generally and fathers specifically in ways both subtle and overt. Across the board I was looking for dads I was never going to find. Taking on this quest was a sort of remedy: I’d traded anguish and paralysis for guilt, anxiety, and a sense of agency.”
That’s all someone who wants answers can do: take action. We have no control over the outcome, and we want to feel like we have control over something, anything. So the only thing we can do is act. Kate became the investigator and the reporter, because that was the only way she could free herself from the burden of the unanswered question, even though the pursuit came with its own costs.
