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If you ask me, finding missing people is probably one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, aspects of my work. But it is also the most rewarding one. Most often missing cases are hardly ever given a minute’s notice by law enforcement, except in exceptional cases. You have to understand, there are other, bigger cases to press on, and being human, the police can only do so much.

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Particularly when I am called upon to trace a long lost relative, or a son or a daughter a parent has not seen for years, this is exactly the kind of case that lies outside the realm of law enforcement—but it is also a dilemma one will be hard pressed to solve when done alone.

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I have more than several cases where I have been hired to find a missing child, a son or a daughter separated from his or her mother or father for a long time. Due to certain circumstances, the child and the parent are separated, but as with most parents, they can only endure being away from their child for so long. There are some who try doing it alone, making inquiries here and there, and sometimes they do succeed, but most often, they don’t. Sometimes those who succeed manage to do so in only a couple of months, or weeks even, if everything turns out right—but most a lot of times, when the length of the separation has been significant, it is hard to locate someone, especially when the people concerned have changed their homes or their jobs or their lifestyles. It is not common to see a searcher fail, discouraged by his lack of progress, overwhelmed by the various difficulties he has faced and those he still must face. Not all attempts succeed, even when a professional has taken the task. As I have said, it is a daunting task.

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But as also mentioned, one with the best rewards. There are very few things in the world more heartwarming to see than a couple reunited, or a parent and child brought together again, their love renewed, their connection to each other restored. The feeling of reunion, after months or years of being apart, is truly beyond my limited vocabulary to describe to you. It is a deep and profound feeling of warmth you can only understand when you are there. Some cynics may point out that things like this are only a job for me; that is true in a sense, as I am professional although out the searching process, but I must protest that I am a human as well, and as such it is natural for me to empathize with this people, they may have paid me, but I am sure the service I have rendered for them is priceless. I daresay I would have done the same things had I been in their shoes, and had the person I hired succeeded, I would consider it money well spent.

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It is not easy to understand what these people go through; I consider myself fortunate that I have not undergone the trials that they have gone through. I do not presume to know. I can only offer my humble services, and hope that at the end, there is a happy reunion.

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