He's quiet for a moment, watching her intently. Every time you tell someone your sister disappeared, you have to watch the other person experience it for the first time. And then you have to be the one who tells them that it's okay, even though it isn't, and you have to act like everything's normal all over again.

The only good part of being The Missing Sister Guy on the Vineyard was that people already knew. Leaving has meant having to decide whether to explain Samantha to others every single day.

"There's someone I need to find," he says. If she wants more details, she can ask; so far, she hasn't wanted more details about most of what he's talked about. "If I could see something - a location, anything - it might help."