Carol chaired the meeting in a tan blazer and her bif focals on their beaded chain and she spoke for 40 minutes about documentation practices and the importance of keeping case files current at the county and federal level.
She did not speak about her son specifically. She distributed photocopied fact sheets. Three of the 11 families had cases that were eventually resolved.
The world moved through its decades. The Vietnam War ended. Nixon resigned. Carter gave way to Reagan.
Compact discs arrived. Fax machines replaced telegrams in the ranger stations. The Soviet Union dissolved.
The internet connected the continent in ways that previous searchers could not have imagined. Carolanne Voss developed cataracts in her left eye in 1991 and had the lens replaced.
She retired from the Bingmpington Library in 1994 after 27 years, threw herself a retirement party, and drove alone across the country to see the Grand Canyon, which Daniel had meant to visit after Yellowstone and had [music] never reached.
