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    What is Missing?
    What is Missing?
    What is Missing?
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    What is Missing?

    By John Nieman

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    A treat for the eyes and the gray matter too, What is Missing? very successfully employs its unique visual device and its warm conversational tone to set up an insightful and eminently worthwhile discussion on modern life."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherURLink Print & Media, LLC
    Release dateApr 9, 2019
    ISBN9781643673387
    What is Missing?
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    John Nieman

    John Nieman, an accomplished artist and writer, has exhibited his paintings throughout the United States and in Europe. His first book of art and poetry, Art of Lists was published in 2007. He has published two novels, The Wrong Number One and Blue Morpho. In addition, he recently published a childen's book called The Amazing Rabbitini. Mr. Nieman lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and is the father of five children.

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      What is Missing? - John Nieman

      What is Missing

      Copyright © 2019 by John Nieman. All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the author except as provided by USA copyright law.

      This novel is a work of fiction. Names, descriptions, entities, and incidents included in the story are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, events, and entities is entirely coincidental.

      The opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily those of URLink Print and Media.

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      URLink Print and Media is committed to excellence in the publishing industry.

      Book design copyright © 2019 by URLink Print and Media. All rights reserved.

      Published in the United States of America

      ISBN 978-1-64367-337-0 (Paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-64367-338-7 (Digital)

      Fiction

      03.04.19

      Contents

      Historical Backdrop

      Preface

      Missing Spontaneity

      Missing Innocence

      Missing Reading Books

      Missing Compromise

      Missing Simple Pleasures

      Missing Privacy

      Missing Discipline

      Missing Balance

      Missing Charm

      Missing Wit

      Missing Role Models

      Missing Facts

      Missing Trust

      Missing Christmas

      Missing Acceptance of Aging

      Missing Time

      Missing Patience

      Missing Fatherhood

      Missing Upward Mobility

      Missing Direction

      Missing Poetry

      Missing Manners

      Missing Resilience

      Missing Silence

      Missing Home-made

      Missing Truth

      Missing Live Talk

      Missing Modesty

      Missing Peace

      Missing Any History

      Missing Loyalty

      Missing Faith

      Missing Eco-sense

      Missing Penmanship

      Missing Subtlety

      Missing Safety

      Missing The Big Picture

      Missing Tolerance

      Missing Thank you’s

      Missing Monogamy

      Missing Self-reliance

      Missing Moderation

      Missing Optimism

      Missing Sleep

      Missing Equality

      Missing Chivalry

      Missing Phys Ed

      Missing Depth

      Missing Common sense

      Missing Stress Relief

      Missing Customer Service

      Missing Compassion

      Acknowledgements

      Historical Backdrop

      I remember those milk cartons.

      In the early morning, just after pouring cheerios into the breakfast bowl, you would grab the half-gallon of homogenized, Vitamin D milk, and find yourself staring at the face of a missing loved one.

      The first kid I recall seeing was Etan Patz, who vanished on May 29, 1972. Evidently, he left his Soho apartment in lower Manhattan for the first time by himself to walk two blocks to his school bus stop. He never made it to the bus stop.

      A hundred police officers and a team of bloodhounds searched for him.

      His father, a professional photographer, put pictures of the missing boy on local posters and even had his image projected on screens in Times Square.

      On October 9, his face began to appear on milk cartons, along with 55 other missing children. Within the next six years, 700 of the nation’s 1800 independent dairies adopted the practice of asking citizens to help find the missing children. It seemed like the faces were everywhere…and for good reason. Hundreds of thousands of kids disappeared every year, and this effort was credited with raising awareness of the problem.

      Unfortunately, it didn’t lead to results. Despite hundreds of images, only one kid was ever found alive. Etan Patz was not that kid. He was declared dead in 2001…despite several closely followed suspects, excavations, and false confessions.

      In the late l980’s, the practices of advertising the missing kids vanished from milk cartons. Perhaps it was the transition to plastic cartons that could no longer accommodate the images. There was also resistance from a few parents, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Dr. T. Barry Brazelton who argued that the images frightened children unnecessarily. Most likely, it was the march of technology. Things like emails, highway Amber alerts, and 24/7 cable broadcasts now seem to be a more effective way to spread the word of missing kids.

      However, the memory of these milk cartons lingers for most people, even to this day. For the vast majority of Americans, it was a daily reminder of the valuable, the vulnerable, and the vanished.

      Hopefully, with this re-interpretation, it can still represent those values.

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      Preface

      I have always loved living in the United States of America. No place on earth is as flexible,

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