Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery

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This couldn’t have happened to nicer people, I thought as I sat with Lynda and Bob MacPherson in their backyard in Saskatoon. Twenty years earlier, their son Duncan had disappeared in Europe, and the mystery still hung over their lives like a curse. The bitterness of their loss had been compounded by the dishonesty they’d encountered at every turn in their quest to learn what had happened to him.

“I used to take comfort in the idea that most people are honest,” Lynda said. “But after Duncan disappeared, I started to have my doubts. Even so, I’m still amazed by the sheer number of people who have lied to us over the years.”

To me, their story had a biblical quality. As I tried to think of the most apt way to describe them, the phrase “salt of the earth” insistently came to mind. All of the insults they’d endured reminded me of the Book of Job. The sheer length of their ordeal—a third of their lives—was terrible to contemplate.

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