Linda Kay Sanders
Gone, March 1964
Gone, March 1964
Charles Sanders last tangible link to his sister sits in a brown paper bag, duct-taped shut, and reads "Kays Letter."
Postmarked in Kingsport on May 16, 1964, the letter is addressed to their now-deceased mother. There is no return address.
"Dear Mom," Kay Sanders wrote, "I am writing to let you know that I am okay." It was two months after her brother says she left home.
"When things at home change and the family thinks we can get along together, I will come home. [...] When you think that you can simmer down & quit blaming us for all the mistakes you made, I can forgive you & we can be a real mother & daughter."
Charles Sanders, 61, has a vague memory of the day he came home from the school he attended with Kay and a third sibling, Sharron, and was told that Kay had left home. He has never seen or heard from her.