“[I told her] that passports had to be applied for and ordered weeks or months in advance. She kept saying, ‘But I have a ticket, we’re going to Cancun.’ I said, ‘Well, they are, but you aren’t, so you should cancel your ticket before you lose its value toward a future flight.’ ‘But…I have a ticket.’ I still wonder if her ‘friends’ didn’t mention passports to her so that they could deliberately ditch her before they flew.”

—u/OkBasil1125