Inside Story: Life Without Lauren Spierer | People Magazine

Two Years With A Daughter Missing And No Answers
Robert Spierer watches as his wife Charlene displays a photo of thier missing daughter Lauren Spierer taken by a video surveillance camera in her apartment building on the night she disappeared during a news conference in Bloomington, Ind., Thursday, June 16, 2011. Spierer, 20, of Greenburgh, N.Y., was last seen early June 3 walking alone toward her apartment after a night of drinking with friends. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Robert Spierer watches as his wife Charlene displays a photo of thier missing daughter Lauren Spierer taken by a video surveillance camera in her apartment building on the night she disappeared during a news conference in Bloomington, Ind., Thursday, June 16, 2011. Spierer, 20, of Greenburgh, N.Y., was last seen early June 3 walking alone toward her apartment after a night of drinking with friends. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

It's the little things, say Robert and Charlene Spierer, that hurt the most.

For Robert it's the flash of a blonde ponytail on a city street that leaves him aching; for Charlene it's the arrival of the cell-phone bill that still bears her daughter's name.

Nineteen months after Lauren disappeared, her boxes from college remain stacked against her parents' den wall. Long ago they gave up hope that Lauren might unpack them herself.

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