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He would be triggered by a person or a place and maybe he sought out company from someone and they weren't available.

And so he was by himself and he would start thinking about his past and things that had happened and trauma he had suffered.

And it's like because he did have trauma and that would take him to a dark place where he was going to start using again to feel better or ignore.

So his feelings or get the amount of his mind, but throughout, he was always a kind person.

I've never seen him do anything malicious or be unkind to anyone.

And just like everyone says, he took a person that people took advantage of because he recognized himself all the faults that he had and knew he wasn't a perfect person.

And so he always gave everyone the benefit of the doubt, people that didn't deserve it, that could cause him to get into bad situations.

Which very well may be what happened in this case with kind to a fault.

This disease is the great equalizer and it will destroy you at any cost.

He's helped hundreds of thousands of people with his app. He's not some rich celebrity, but he's a good person, he's honest.

But he's not somebody who would walk away from his life. Something very serious has happened to him.

I fear a crime has been, has been fallen here. Maybe this is not really a missing person.

39 year old Bowman vanished from Los Angeles on a fall day in 2021.

Throughout our series about Bow's disappearance, you've learned about various aspects of his life and the mystery surrounding how he went missing.

One thing that has come into focus by this point in the series is that Bow was a complex person who seemed to show different sides of himself to various groups of people in his life.

He wanted his family to see him as a success. He had close friendships with many people and shared a lot of his struggles with some of them.

It also began to emerge that there may have been another group of people in Bow's life that he kept hidden from the rest.

When Bow disappeared, his family and close friends began to learn about some of these people in Bow's life and wondered why he had never mentioned them.

It was like learning about a whole other side of him that they didn't realize was there. How much can you really know about another person and how much can someone close to you be hiding?

This has left Bow's loved ones to try to untangle a complicated web of people that don't seem willing to help find Bow or tell them everything that they know.

I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is Episode 393 of The Vanished, part four of Bow Man's story, The Focus.

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