PART 4

Inside the red-brick building, a receptionist handed us visitor badges.

The sign on her desk read WILLOWBRIDGE FAMILY RECORDS CENTER.

I had expected a secret apartment or a hotel.

Instead I found shelves of archived documents, a small conference room, and a wall of photographs showing families reuniting after years of separation.

A woman with reading glasses and a gray braid introduced herself as Dr.

Helen Park, a licensed counselor who assisted adults recovering from long separations.