I hate finding out about local art through the news that it was mysteriously and aggressively stolen. I still dream of discovering the one sculpture of my grandmother's that is unaccounted for in a private collection or a museum

Oh, gosh. How weird, on the first count! And I do hope you do track down the sculpture. How awful to just have it lurking unseen and lost instead. (This is why we have librarians! Things need cataloguing!! It's how people access stuff. *ahem*)

*hugs for the rest* (I don't think, at this point, that I dare even ask if the sleepless pain part is a little better by the time of this late comment, but I will HOPE so anyway. ♥)