Seven thousand, three hundred days.
That’s how long it has been since our middle son, Angel Antonio Torres, known as Tony, was last seen alive. On May 21, 1999, Tony boarded a bus in Boston, stepped off it in Biddeford, Maine, and hasn’t been seen since. This year marks 20 years since he disappeared without a trace.
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