Every forty seconds, a child goes missing in the United States.

By the time you say that sentence aloud, it has already happened to another child.

Eighty seconds ago, Bailey Ramirez went missing.

At least, one hundred twenty seconds ago was when I found out.

In order to understand a story like this, I would have to take you back to a time when things were less complicated.

Because complicated is how we got in this mess in the first place.

The most important thing to remember about every complicated story is that every villain has a hero.

Loki had Thor.

Joker had Batman.

Syndrome had the Incredibles.

And I, Aleigha Emerson had Bailey Ramirez.