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Recovering the DisappearedHow do you memorialize people who vanish?

By Meghan O'RourkePosted Thursday, May 17, 2007, at 2:05 PM ET

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Meghan O'Rourke is Slate's culture critic and the author of Halflife, a collection of poetry.
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