A Year After My Daughter Vanished from Camp, I Found a Shoebox Under Her Twin Sister’s Bed

None had been mailed. At the bottom was a blue notebook filled with letters Sophie had written to Maya. The first line broke me: “Dear Maya, Mom still leaves your toothbrush out. I don’t think she’s noticed mine needed replacing.” Page after page revealed what I had missed. Sophie wrote that everyone kept asking what she remembered from the lake, continue reading …