This episode is the second in a two-part series.

It discusses themes of mental health, abuse, and childhood trauma.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is the fall line.

Last episode, we began the story of Robin Burton. She's an advocate for

missing persons cases among unhoused communities across the United States. Robin works online

and in person to distribute flyers, share cases, and reconnect families. And she's also focused

on the everyday needs of the people that

she meets as well. Food, supplies, camping gear, whatever her contacts communicate to her and

other volunteers is needed. It's become her second full-time job, something that she fits in around

other jobs and moves, her commitments to the daughter that

she raised as her own, and now to her granddaughter.

And all that time, she's been looking for her own mother, Claudia Leslie Wells, for decades.

Listeners may remember that Claudia is called Leslie by her family, and that's how we'll

be referring to her throughout these episodes. You also may remember that Claudia is called Leslie by her family, and that's how we'll be referring to her

throughout these episodes. You also may remember that we began last time by telling you how

Robin's involvement in missing persons' work began. She realized Leslie had disappeared into an

unhoused community. An outreach worker had filed a report. So Robin tracked her, first in one state and then another.

But to get you to how all that happened, you have to understand their story.

We began last time with Leslie's childhood and with Robbins.

You'll recall that Robin was raised by her grandparents in her early childhood.

Leslie came and went from their home base in Illinois,

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