Seven Years After My Daughter’s Funeral, I Followed Her Husband to a Rehabilitation Center—And Saw a Woman I Thought Was Dead
Melissa had been transferred between institutions.
At times, records carried no confirmed name.
The identifying information wasn’t consistent.
Some facilities recorded what she remembered.
Others relied on the provisional information they received.
At one point, a patient identifier was copied without the accompanying history.
Later, another facility used a different number.
The chain was incomplete.
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