When I was 14, there was a quiet, incredibly intelligent boy in my class. One day, he suddenly disappeared, and the police couldn’t find him. His parents withdrew from society and hardly left the house. Twenty-four years later, I was stunned to see him on TV—same name, same face, but older. It turned out that he had been recruited by the government at a young age because of his exceptional intelligence. Everything was classified, and while his parents knew he wasn’t really missing, they had to pretend he was. Now, years later, he had left that life behind and appeared in a documentary. My heart raced as I realized that everyone in our town had assumed he was dead, and suddenly, there he was on national TV.