The silence in Nicole La Guerre’s dining room on Thanksgiving this year was deafening. Plates sat untouched, as memories of past years’ bustling dinners haunted every creak of her Westminster house.

Beside her, her mother sat quietly, while La Guerre let tears stream down her face, unable to take a bite. Grief and fear shared her table this year — a reminder that her husband, Leonard Mercury , has been missing since Halloween.

“Our anniversary of the day we met is on December 12, and Leonard never forgets that date ... our youngest son’s birthday is December 7. I’m just hoping that, maybe, since he remembers those dates every year, he’ll reach out,” La Guerre said Monday, exactly a month from the last time her husband — whom she’s been with since they were 18 — was seen.

“I just want

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