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They say goodbye. They say it with a strange smile like a kid who overheard a secret. But they don\u2019t share what they know. They just walk out the door. Maybe it\u2019s a cabin door. Or an office door. Or a plain screen door in suburbia. They walk out and they don\u2019t come back. My Uncle Ray\u2019s the first in my family to vanish. It happens in the early weeks when the chattering faces on television and the mindless voices online still claim it\u2019s some newfangled fad that will taper off like acid-washed jeans or hula hoops did. | Copyright 2015 by Gwendolyn Kiste. Narrated by Judy Young.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices