June 06, 2002 // 6:21 p.m. // Holding out for information
Two things have been on my mind lately. The first is the case of the missing fourteen year-old girl, Elizabeth Smart from her home here in Salt Lake. Maybe it's because this seems so real. All of the local, and now national news updates over the past 36 hours makes me feel like I know her. There are flyers everywhere. At the convienience stores I went to today. Fast food restaraunts and grocery stores. Schools and telephone poles. Cars and people's windows. All of the flags you saw in the days following September 11th? That's what it looks like with the flyers. Sometimes the crew and I go up to and through Federal Heights. We look at the houses, dream of what it'd be like to live there, and park our cars to admire the spectacular view of the Salt Lake valley. We combine all of these things together, and come to the conclusion that these people have it made. Suddenly, these families seem so human. They aren't the rich upper class families living in million dollar homes. They're parents. They're human. They experience loss and mourn in the same way the rest of us do. We've seen Elizabeth's picture almost as many times as we saw Chandra Levy's or the planes hitting the World Trade Center. They're commited to my memory. And as more photos and live video comes out, she seems even more real. It's not just a missing person. It's not just a local story that has gone national. But a real child who is missing, and has not been seen for almost 40 hours now. I was going to include the second thing. A happier thing that made my day. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe later today. But for now, I just had to do this. Last time on Apexsensatin : Now on Apex : Apex Archives : Next time on Apexsensatin
