Why did you abandon your family? Where did you go? What's life like for you now?

My cousin, shall we say, went for a walk once. He was dating this woman who was just an awful

human being. She got pregnant, swore it was his, and once the kid was born, the state went after

him for child support, as he wasn't on the birth certificate, even though they were living together.

Anyways, the paternity test came back showing it wasn't his, and she flipped her lid.

She just lost it. He asked her to calm down and said he wanted to take a walk to cool off.

He left everything he owned, minus the clothes on his back, and his wallet, and went for a walk that he never came back from.

A few years back, the kid found him, the kid was 16 or 17, and went on some giant rant about

him being a bum and a deadbeat and whatever other nonsense. My cousin just told him he wasn't his dad.

The paternity test showed that, and he had no idea why she told him he was the father,

so he'd just walked out.

That kid left a hell of a lot more confused than when he showed up, I think.

I've never left, but my brother has.

One morning, two years ago, I woke up with a killer hangover.

I rolled over in bed, checked my phone and saw several missed calls and a couple of voicemails

from my mother and sister, along with a text message from my dad saying, call me. The first voicemail was from my sister, sobbing through the phone and she said, Tom just tried to self- delete. He wrote us all a letter and, and just call me please. Whoa, this can't be real. Then my mum's voicemail. Tom attempted to end things.

We haven't been able to reach him, but we suspect he might be heading you away.

If you see him, call the police.

We need to make sure he's safe.

Oh, crap.

This is definitely real.

We all somewhat suspected depression from him, but this was unexpected.

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