When I moved into my apartment, the landlord let me keep an old bookshelf left by the previous tenant. Three months later, I found a hidden compartment containing photographs from 1998–2004. One showed my father standing inside my apartment years before I’d ever lived there. When I called my mother, she didn’t ask what I’d found. She asked one terrifying question: “Is the bookshelf still in your apartment?” What I discovered inside it eventually revealed why my father disappeared—and the shocking identity of the person who had been hiding the truth all these years.
When I moved into my new apartment, the landlord casually mentioned that the previous tenant had left some furniture behind. “Anything you want, just keep it,” he said. Most of …
When I moved into my apartment, the landlord let me keep an old bookshelf left by the previous tenant. Three months later, I found a hidden compartment containing photographs from 1998–2004. One showed my father standing inside my apartment years before I’d ever lived there. When I called my mother, she didn’t ask what I’d found. She asked one terrifying question: “Is the bookshelf still in your apartment?” What I discovered inside it eventually revealed why my father disappeared—and the shocking identity of the person who had been hiding the truth all these years. Read More
