When your brother or sister is missing, there’s no going back to things exactly the way they were before. So much of your day-to-day life may be difficult, painful, and frightening. You wonder what the outcome will be. Will your brother or sister come home safe? Will they ever be found? How will the story end?
As the brothers and sisters who authored this book, we will tell you that our stories haven’t ended. The fact is, we continue to be affected by what happened to our siblings years ago. To this day we continue to cope with thoughts and feelings that were awakened during that time.
Hard as it may be to believe, we will also tell you that the experience has had some positive effects on our lives. We may have been forced to grow up faster, but we have also grown up stronger. We have become more sensitive and empathetic to other peoples’ problems. We have learned how to hold on to what is most dear and important to us. We have learned that life does go on, that it still holds much that is good and satisfying, and that we can and should dare to hope things will get better still.
