Unusual Hobbies
They look for dead people
and missing people
and the people who killed or took those people.
They imagine what skulls looked like with flesh
and then paint or sculpt them.
They pore over forgotten records,
they search photographs for clues,
they track down the manufacturers for materials
possibly involved,
all to hopefully
maybe
possibly
solve the question of who.
They go without sleep,
they forget to eat,
they choose not to go out with friends,
and do unpaid research work instead.
It’s unfathomable
that these unsung heroes
work tirelessly in the background without recognition
for people they will never know,
in places they might never go –
hours of work that might not even be useful.
Now excuse me while I make digital copies of physical records
so that people I will never know
in places I might never go
might be able to use the records to find their ancestors.
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