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Emily Brisse was just eight years old when eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted from their small Minnesota town. Haunted by the long-unsolved mystery of the boy’s disappearance, Emily tries to make sense of a terrible story that isn’t really hers to tell—but that also shaped her entire life.

I was still uncivilized; I stood out among the Wednesday morning commuters in their ties and pencil skirts, awaiting lattes at Starbucks. Air-dried hair frizzed from my head and baggy hiking pants hung off my skeletal frame.

Illustration by Anna Hall At exactly 5:50 p.m., your mother-in-law will anxiously announce, “Someone needs to go get the crabs right now!” When you first met her, shortly after meeting her son, you called her by her first name, an accidental faux pas for which you reluctantly apologized.

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