Natalie Price refused to leave the warehouse until officers showed her every corridor between the room where she had been held and the waiting ambulance.<\/p>\n
Detective Susan Carter did not rush her.<\/p>\n
For eleven years, Natalie had survived by assuming every unlocked door might lead back to captivity and every unfamiliar voice might belong to someone working for Evelyn Marsh. Telling her that the police were safe would not erase a decade of evidence teaching her otherwise.<\/p>\n
Carter walked beside her.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one from this building is going with you except police and medical staff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie glanced toward the paramedics.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do I know them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don't.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer surprised her.<\/p>\n
Carter continued, \u201cSo you can ask their names. You can ask me to verify them. You can refuse anything that isn't medically necessary until somebody explains it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie studied her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not going to tell me to trust you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Something in Natalie\u2019s expression loosened.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the ambulance, she stopped again.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKatherine is under protection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou called her Katie?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe uses Katherine now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe always hated Katherine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite everything, a tiny smile appeared.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe used to say it sounded like I was angry with her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter remembered the survivor who had sat across from her carrying eleven years of guilt because she had escaped without the others.<\/p>\n
\u201cWould you like her told you're alive?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s eyes opened immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWould you like to speak with her tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s certainty vanished.<\/p>\n
Her hands began trembling.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
She stopped.<\/p>\n
Carter waited.<\/p>\n
Natalie touched the gray streak in her hair.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe remembers me young.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe remembers you as her mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie began crying.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know if I remember how to be that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don't have to decide tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ambulance doors closed.<\/p>\n
Carter watched it leave before turning back toward the warehouse.<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s final words inside the room had changed the hierarchy of the case.<\/p>\n
Hale isn\u2019t the one in charge.<\/p>\n
The woman.<\/p>\n
Evelyn.<\/p>\n
Until then, investigators had understood Evelyn Marsh as a facilitator: someone with access to vulnerable children, records, false identities, placements, and bureaucratic systems.<\/p>\n
Natalie described something different.<\/p>\n
Evelyn had designed the structure.<\/p>\n
Richard Hale controlled locations.<\/p>\n
Gregory Grant controlled money.<\/p>\n
Patrick Lewis handled medical problems.<\/p>\n
Thomas Miller confined children and women when required.<\/p>\n
Robert Dean obstructed police attention.<\/p>\n
But Evelyn decided who became visible and who disappeared.<\/p>\n
Carter entered the warehouse office.<\/p>\n
Brooks was already examining recovered records.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Natalie mean?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll interview her when doctors clear it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou believe her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe she survived eleven years inside a system we\u2019re still discovering.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was enough to take the claim seriously.<\/p>\n
The warehouse itself supported Natalie\u2019s account.<\/p>\n
The rooms at the rear had been renovated repeatedly. Different locks had been installed over different generations. Plumbing had been rerouted. Ventilation ducts connected the rooms without allowing occupants to reach the warehouse.<\/p>\n
This was not temporary improvisation.<\/p>\n
Someone had invested years in maintaining it.<\/p>\n
Technicians found fingerprints belonging to Grant and Hale.<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019s prints appeared on an interior door.<\/p>\n
Evelyn\u2019s were everywhere.<\/p>\n
Not old traces from the building\u2019s New Horizons days.<\/p>\n
Recent prints.<\/p>\n
One appeared on a water bottle delivered to Natalie\u2019s room less than forty-eight hours earlier.<\/p>\n
Evelyn had visited after Hale\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n
Possibly after investigators began closing in.<\/p>\n
Yet she had left Natalie alive.<\/p>\n
Carter wanted to know why.<\/p>\n
At the hospital, Natalie underwent examination while a victim advocate remained nearby.<\/p>\n
She was dehydrated but not critically malnourished. Unlike Lily and Maya, she had received regular food.<\/p>\n
Doctors discovered old fractures.<\/p>\n
Some had healed badly.<\/p>\n
There were scars around both ankles.<\/p>\n
But the strangest finding was medication in her blood.<\/p>\n
A long-term sedative.<\/p>\n
Low dose.<\/p>\n
Enough to affect concentration without keeping her unconscious.<\/p>\n
Patrick Lewis had prescribed the same drug repeatedly under fictitious patient names.<\/p>\n
Carter arrived after midnight.<\/p>\n
Natalie agreed to a limited interview.<\/p>\n
Mary Davis joined them at Natalie\u2019s request after Carter explained Mary had been helping Katherine, Emily, and Lily.<\/p>\n
Natalie sat beneath a hospital blanket with both hands wrapped around a paper cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere\u2019s Evelyn?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn custody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie looked sharply at Carter.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlive?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re sure?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCustody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGrant?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCustody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPatrick Lewis?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCustody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCustody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s shoulders slowly lowered.<\/p>\n
\u201cDean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMissing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fear returned instantly.<\/p>\n
\u201cFind him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d Natalie leaned forward. \u201cFind him before Evelyn talks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter watched her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Dean kept copies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCopies of what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything he could steal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter remembered the old-case files in Dean\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was protecting himself?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDean protected Dean.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie drank water.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard hated him. Grant thought he was useful. Evelyn never trusted him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy was he involved?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMoney at first.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd later?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie looked toward the closed door.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey all knew too much about each other. That was how Evelyn kept them together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMutual blackmail?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cFiles. Pictures. recordings. Accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter thought of Hale\u2019s ledger, Patrick\u2019s tapes, Dean\u2019s copied cases.<\/p>\n
Each participant had retained evidence.<\/p>\n
Not carelessly.<\/p>\n
Defensively.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Evelyn have on you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie stared into her cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter stayed silent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Thomas took Katie, I went to police. Nobody believed the story the way I told it because Thomas had already prepared another one. He told people I was unstable. Said I threatened to disappear with Katie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDean handled the report.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened afterward?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvelyn found me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cParking lot outside my work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s voice flattened.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said she knew where Katie was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did she want?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me to stop talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she show you proof Katie was alive?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA photograph.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter thought of the archive.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened next?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI got in her car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mary\u2019s expression tightened.<\/p>\n
Natalie noticed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were trying to reach your daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did Evelyn take you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHale\u2019s farm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you see Katie?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor about two minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s mouth trembled.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was behind glass.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mary whispered, \u201cGlass?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA room in the house. Evelyn wouldn't let me touch her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCould Katie see you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDrugged?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Evelyn say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat if I cooperated, Katie would live.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter felt anger rise.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if you didn't?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe showed me the well.\u201d<\/p>\n
No one spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said children had accidents when mothers became difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hannah and David would eventually die there.<\/p>\n
But Natalie had been threatened with the place earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy keep you alive for eleven years?\u201d Carter asked.<\/p>\n
Natalie opened her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I worked for a records company.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMedical and government archiving. Mostly digitization.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvelyn used you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe made me create identities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter went still.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the children?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor who else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAdults.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMembers of the network?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople they moved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter\u2019s mind accelerated.<\/p>\n
False names.<\/p>\n
False ages.<\/p>\n
Altered histories.<\/p>\n
The reason investigators struggled to find children was not simply because they vanished.<\/p>\n
Their records had been deliberately reconstructed.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould you access government databases?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot directly. But I knew document structures. What looked real. What numbers had to match.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho entered them?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie swallowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvelyn had people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNames?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never knew most.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe helped with police records.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPatrick?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMedical.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGrant?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMoney and tax identities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHale?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTransportation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s expression hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas liked control. He wasn\u2019t smart enough to build anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mary looked at Carter.<\/p>\n
That description matched what they had seen.<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019s house was a prison.<\/p>\n
Evelyn\u2019s network was a system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did Rachel die?\u201d Carter asked.<\/p>\n
Natalie became very still.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou found Rachel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInside Thomas\u2019s basement wall.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told Evelyn Rachel would find out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas talked about her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the warehouse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe visited you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Rachel asked questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie looked at Carter.<\/p>\n
\u201cRachel noticed Emily\u2019s records were wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHer birth certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cRachel discovered the certificate in their home wasn't the original.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mary stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Rachel was Emily\u2019s mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would Thomas replace their own daughter\u2019s birth certificate?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Emily wasn't their daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room seemed to lose sound.<\/p>\n
Mary spoke first.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s eyes filled with pity.<\/p>\n
\u201cRachel thought she gave birth to a girl who died.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter\u2019s pulse pounded.<\/p>\n
\u201cExplain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know everything. Evelyn only told me what I needed for the records.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTell us what you know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRachel had a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hospital told her the baby died shortly after delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mary covered her mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas brought Emily home later?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much later?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout eight months.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAn emergency foster placement at first.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter thought through everything Emily had said.<\/p>\n
Mommy.<\/p>\n
Daddy.<\/p>\n
The family photographs.<\/p>\n
Rachel had raised Emily and believed herself her mother emotionally, even if not biologically.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Rachel know Emily wasn't biologically hers?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe knew Emily was supposedly a foster child. Thomas convinced her they could adopt.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why alter the birth certificate?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYears later, Thomas wanted it to look like Emily had always been theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie stared at Carter.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Evelyn wanted the real parents erased.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter felt the case shift again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho were Emily\u2019s real parents?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Rachel discovered the falsification?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen she investigated it, she found the other children?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what Thomas said.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel\u2019s search for the truth about her daughter had opened the basement.<\/p>\n
And the basement had killed her.<\/p>\n
Carter asked, \u201cWhat happened to Rachel\u2019s biological baby?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCould she have survived?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mary looked stricken.<\/p>\n
If Evelyn controlled infant records, a reported neonatal death could hide another transfer.<\/p>\n
Rachel might have spent years raising an abducted child while her own child lived somewhere else.<\/p>\n
Or died exactly as the hospital reported.<\/p>\n
They needed proof.<\/p>\n
Natalie continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a master archive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter focused immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho had access?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvelyn.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGrant, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s in it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOriginal identities. New identities. Payments. Where people went.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat could identify surviving children.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd victims.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why Dean ran.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted the archive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asked me where Evelyn kept it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThree weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter\u2019s thoughts stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cDean visited you three weeks ago?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat the group was falling apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard wanted out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHale?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was afraid of Maya.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy Maya?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe saw Evelyn kill someone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter went rigid.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA man named Howard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHoward who?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHoward came to the farm. He argued with Evelyn. Maya was supposed to be locked downstairs, but she saw through the tunnel door.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Maya tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Victor did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter remembered Maya\u2019s terror, her four months underground, her attempted removal scheduled for Grant.<\/p>\n
Maya had not merely been awaiting transfer.<\/p>\n
She was a witness.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas Grant coming to take her somewhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s expression answered before she spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo make sure she couldn't talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter stood.<\/p>\n
They needed Maya protected more heavily immediately.<\/p>\n
Natalie caught her wrist.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvelyn knows you found me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was arrested before we entered the warehouse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don't understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe planned for this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvelyn always said if the police ever found one place, they would find the others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s fingers tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe built a way to destroy the archive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter leaned closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat way?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRemote deletion?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFire?\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie whispered, \u201cShe called it the last door.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter sat again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
At headquarters, digital teams immediately began isolating Evelyn\u2019s devices.<\/p>\n
Her phones had already been placed in shielded evidence containers.<\/p>\n
Her computers were offline.<\/p>\n
But if the archive existed elsewhere, arresting Evelyn may have triggered a timer or alert.<\/p>\n
Carter called Brooks.<\/p>\n
\u201cSearch everything for \u2018last door.\u2019 Files, emails, notes, devices.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twenty minutes later, Brooks called back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found the phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGrant\u2019s laptop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter stood in the hospital corridor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does it say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSingle encrypted calendar entry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDate?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter\u2019s stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cTime?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFour a.m.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at the clock.<\/p>\n
3:41.<\/p>\n
\u201cNineteen minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens at four?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFind out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter hurried toward the elevator.<\/p>\n
Behind her, Natalie called from the room.<\/p>\n
\u201cDetective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you find the archive\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon't just look for missing children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s face had gone pale.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook for babies listed as dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
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