Kathy Fields, despite the passing years, holds out hope for answers in the long-unexplained disappearances of her two brothers.
Fields appeared Saturday for the city medical examiner’s annual Missing Persons Day, where attendees arrived with a mixture of sadness and yearning for their lost loved ones.
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