Just a quick update because we are leaving.

How do you ask your oldest friend to send something with her husband's DNA on it? Very vaguely...

Yesterday we were sitting in the hotel room with our missing persn's mother when the phone ran. It's K. they said, may he come up. "Yes! Yes!"

K. is one of the guys with our guy and on our list.

10 of the longest and most heart wrenching moments of my life past and nothing. We paced. we stared at the door. We pretneded to watch the news. I tried to bullshit that it must be another K.

Nothing. We began to think this was another sick prank. Like someone saw his name on our flyer and called us. The front desk called AGAIN. It's K, he's coming up.

We couldn't wait anymore. We ran into the hall, me, my roommate and the mother and stared at the elevator - waiting for the doors to open.

He emerged, one of the wedding party, in a suit and well-pressed. We stood with our mouths open. It was like seeing a ghost.

"Where...What...where did you COME from???" was all we could get out.

He wasn't in the building. He flew out to a client in Kansas on Tuesday morning at 6:30AM to see clients. We had no idea.

We spoke with him, if you could call it that but it was more the three of us sitting across from him and staring in disbelief.

After that, we all went out for drinks last night. The family us and our guys friends. And we got drunk.

We have spoken with the family that's here and they are going home and have asked us to come. It's time for us to face my oldest friend, and give her a personal account of the devestation.

It's time.

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