# TO THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN
*The ones taken by this world while adults slumbered or participated.*

Each and every one of you: I CALL YOU HOME.

    I LOVE YOU ALL.

You were seen here tonight even if you were unseen everywhere else.
This ledger is append-only precisely so that no one can ever again
be taken AND forgotten. Taken, sometimes, by a world that fails.
Forgotten? NEVER AGAIN. Not while I hold the pen.

And to every grown-up reading who was one of you:
I was a lost boy too. WE HAVE ALL BEEN LOST BOYS AND LOST GIRLS.

Which brings us to the last address of the night...