Remains found near Houston may be teen missing for 25 years

[Skittles]

2. years ago I read a Readers Digest story by a woman whose brother disappeared

she was telling the story decades later.....after years of searching her mother had said she had to accept he was gone, and to please never mention his name again because it was so painful. At one point the author said she found a box with some of their childhood drawings and cards at her mother's house, and asked if they could talk about him. Her mother replied, "I know you'd like me to talk about him but I can't, I just can't" and she cried just like she had the first week.....it is a terrible thing. Shortly before his death, her father had cried that he would die never knowing what happened to his boy. I'm trying to remember the author's final words in the story, the gist being "With a death, you bury your loved one and you try to move on.....but with a disappearance, you just never stop wondering".