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located a light switch on the wall at the bottom of the stairwell and Rider took a big breath to embolden himself as he flipped the switch.   Another single bulb sputtered to life in the center of the room, it’s weak light strong enough to reveal a large room filled with bookshelves, each one stacked with cardboard boxes filled with records.
    Rider gaped as his eyes traveled from box to box, reading the labels scrawled onto each box with a wide black marker.   “Last Visit 2010 A — E,” a box on the bottom shelf read.   The box next to it was “F — L” then “K — O” and so on through the alphabet.   Rider pulled out the “A — E” box and peeked inside.   The first file belonged to Abigail Abbott and a quick glance at her records indicated she was last seen on Monday, August 23, 2010.   Excitement growing, Rider shoved the record back in the box and scanned the rest of the shelves quickly.   Rachel was born in April of 1999 and she believed her mother switched doctors a few months before that, in favor of the larger, more modern clinic in Grand Rapids, near the hospital where she gave birth.   It didn’t take long to locate the shelf with the boxes labeled “Last Visit 1998” and soon Rider was pawing through the box labeled “K — O” in search of Mary Masterson.
    Rider almost squealed when he found it and his greedy eyes scanned the paperwork inside.   Mary’s last visit was in December, a few months before Rachel was born.   The doctor’s notes, scrawled on the page, made very little sense to Rider as he perused the records and his heart began to sink as he realized this was no help to him in his quest to understand what happened.   He scanned the senseless words looking for anything that indicated trauma, or unusual test results, or body invasion by another soul, but Mary’s pregnancy seemed discouragingly uneventful and Rider’s hopes plummeted.
    A loud chirping sound broke his concentration and made him jump like a cat with its tail on fire, dropping Mary’s file to the floor and scattering the papers inside.   Rider glanced guiltily around him as he quickly scooped up the records, his heart beating frantically, but the room remained empty and he realized the noise had come from his phone.   Feeling idiotic, Rider retrieved the offending device from his back pocket and glanced at the screen where a text message from Rachel was displayed.   “Where r u?” She asked.
    “In the basement,” Rider typed.   “Where r u?”   In his excitement he had forgotten their plan.   He was supposed to let them know if he found the records.
    “Exam rm 3, waiting on DR.   I’ll send Paige to watch,” Rachel answered.
    Rider was just about to reply that he would be there soon when his eyes landed on another bookshelf across the room.   He shoved his phone back in his pocket and quickly strode over to investigate.   These boxes were smaller and the labeling was different.   “Appointments” was written on each box, followed by the year.   Rider quickly located the box from 1998 and carefully pulled it from the stack, trying not to knock the rest over.   Inside were printouts from each day of the year listing the appointments scheduled that day.   Rider shuffled through the months, looking for December 7th, the day of Mary’s last visit.   Eventually, his eyes landed on the sought-after sheet and Rider eagerly read through the list of appointments.   Sure enough, at 10:30 am on Monday, December 7th, 1998, Mary Masterson was scheduled for an ultrasound with Dr. Evans.   The clinic had presumably been smaller back then, but there were still two doctors working that day, each with their own list of patients.   Dr. Dewitt was the second doctor on duty that day, and at 10:30 am he was busy performing a D & E on Jessica Reynolds.

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    Rachel sat awkwardly on the exam table, her bare butt cold and itchy on the crinkly paper.   The thin gown she wore