My Husband Filed for Emergency Custody Before My Flight—Then the Pink Ribbon on My Missing Suitcase Led Me to My Mother’s 28-Year-Old Secret

She might have been prevented from returning.

She might have planned to disappear.

She might have changed her mind.

Something else might have happened.

I did not know.

But I no longer had to believe she vanished without arranging anything for me.

She had written my name.

That was real.

PART 7 — THE THINGS I DID NOT USE

The most important decisions I made were sometimes about evidence I chose not to use.