My 16-Year-Old Daughter Vanished from a Crowded Beach – Eight Years Later, I Saw Her Handmade Cover-up on a Stranger

My daughter Nora disappeared when she was sixteen.

We had been spending the day at a crowded beach.

She told me she was walking down to the ice cream stand at the far end.

I watched her leave.

I still remember thinking how much taller she had gotten that year.

Twenty minutes passed.

Her towel was still beside mine.