This exploration examines the importance of exhumations in conveying meaning, despite scientific limitations.
> Every person lost was a world. Even when bodies are never found, the act of looking for them is meaningful. . . . Even when exhumations “fail”—as measured by narrow scientific and legal metrics—they matter. > > Alexa Hagerty, “Melancholy” The fragmented version of Édouard Manet’s
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