
Olya
This girl on the left is Olya. She was ten or eleven in that picture. The image below is her at thirteen. That’s when she left the shelter called The Way Home where she was staying in Odessa, Ukraine and disappeared along with another girl and a boy. That was 2007. A month passed, then I remember an all night train ride to a city called Vinnytsia and an early morning bus ride to remote village half an hour away. The sun had still not come up when we found her in a cabin wit