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“A woman I worked retail with, who up until that point was the sweetest, gentlest middle-aged lady I’d ever met, told me the most disturbing story about her family. This was in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina; she and her family had lived there for generations. They were well-known and well-loved by basically everyone for being kind and generous neighbors. One casual Wednesday, as my coworker and I were restocking shelves, she told me that years ago, her sister-in-law’s boyfriend was caught assaulting the SIL’s very young child. She then witnessed the men of the family, including her husband, take the boyfriend deep into the mountains and return several hours later without him. He was never seen or heard from again.”
“There was a bare-bones investigation, but nothing ever came of it. The especially shocking thing wasn’t just that she had essentially confessed to being a witness — even an accomplice — to a possible murder. It’s that she told me the story so calmly, so evenly, and so unapologetically. She never brought up anything like it again and knitted me a baby bonnet as a gift when I left on maternity leave a few months later. I still think about her.”
—anonymous
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