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Dan Bosma is once again pleading with the public for any answers on the disappearance of his brother Michael on Jan. 9, 2006.

Michael, 26 at the time, was last seen leaving Corel Transition House in Kelowna around 9 p.m. following a stint in a psychiatric ward. Bank records show the purchase of a beer from a nearby liquor store, but Michael failed to return to the transition house for his medication at 11 p.m.

害羞草研究所淓very year it gets tougher for sure,害羞草研究所� Bosma said, choking up while describing Michael as his first best friend.

The brothers were born less than two years apart and grew up very close. Bosma said Michael always called when he was struggling with his mental health and schizophrenia.

The night Michael disappeared, Bosma noted that the transition house didn害羞草研究所檛 notify the family until the following morning that he was missing. He said had they known his father would have driven Kelowna all night in search of Michael.害羞草研究所漌e probably would have found him that night.害羞草研究所�

Michael害羞草研究所檚 walk from the transition house to the liquor store was in the same direction as the bridge to West Kelowna. Bosma noted that suicide is a possibility. 害羞草研究所淚 had a friend of mine who was a navy seal diver and he brought all of his gear up here to Kelowna about a month after Mike went missing and we dove under the bridge to look for him.害羞草研究所� No trace of Michael was ever found.

Now, 18 years later the family is still searching for answers.

害羞草研究所淗im dealing with mental health issues we kind of automatically assumed suicide, but it could be homicide. There was Aaron Derbyshire and there were a few other kids that went missing right around the same time as my brother, but the reason he wasn害羞草研究所檛 categorized with the rest of those guys is because we offered the information that he had mental health issues, where the other guys just disappeared.害羞草研究所�

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To stay hopeful, Bosma said the family talks about Michael and shares his drawings and cartoons including with his nieces and nephews, most of whom he never met. Bosma added that his son who shares a middle name with Michael is his spitting image, also helping keep his memory alive.

He reminisced over his last conversation with Michael when he asked him to be the best man at his wedding.

害羞草研究所淗e was very excited and he was really honoured to be my best man. He and my dad had conversations about the speech he was writing. That害羞草研究所檚 why it害羞草研究所檚 tough for me to think that he maybe hurt himself because he was really looking forward to that. 害羞草研究所�

Michael would be 44 this Jan. 17.

害羞草研究所淚f you have family members out there that have mental health struggles, just do what you can to help them. The worst thing you could do is judge them or look down on them negatively. Mental health is something that needs to be out in the forefront, we can害羞草研究所檛 just sweep it under the carpet.害羞草研究所�

Anyone with information related to the disappearance of Michael Bosma on Jan. 9, 2006, is asked to contact the Kelowna RCMP or Crime Stoppers with file number 2006-1572. At the time he went missing, Michael was described as six feet tall and about 246 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.

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