>be me >dad died 2 months ago >quiet >no last words >just stared into the corner of the room >clearing his storage unit >fog sitting low despite that its low >find a footlocker >green steel milsurp>wire shut>yellowed tag reads: do not index>inside >folders>notebooks >maps>microcasettes>3 film cannisters >all dry>deliberately preserved >first page "field notes">dad was 18 when Kennedy died >wrote down the time >signed enlistment papers 27 days later >Vietnam>3 tours >no unit >no team name >just coords and durations>entries occasionally stop mid sentence>came home 1972>no reintegration notes >next section starts 1974 >dad and x others >all ex somethings >form PI firm >professional>boring >typical gov oddjobs >tracking awols>walking into gov buildings >years of it >private contract>reads: case file: green candle>foreign money>cash >offshore account >North cascades >October 17th 1975 >fog thick like milk>condensation so high you can taste it >number of >18 runaways is a couple dps higher than the surrounding counties >all ruled runaways >no bodies >ages 9-16 >his notes are dry >lists>dates >locations >they expected to be bugging trailer park junkies glad to have one less mouth to feed >most where rural>most of those white trash >he spent 6 weeks hitting every one>he thought it was specific >he was right>just up to the point of higher education, age of child was inversely proportional to the familial income>labourers>electricians>plumbers>hvac >etc >almost picturesque >nuclear families >boomer wet dream>all children are below 15>none had motive to leave >all had no feasible means of escaping>all lived rural >dirt road access >bobcat, black bear, case file writes itself>under this filter, the disappearances created a shallow spiral>a few hundred miles or so between each node>approximately 2 years between each >team split up>hit each node again >new questions >different answers
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