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Christina Deardurff's avatar

I read your account of Pia disappearing with tears streaming down my face, as I also have a daughter with Down Syndrome, Elise, aged 22, and have been through the same experience, including the cops, not once but twice...and your story brought back all the emotions of both loss and fear, and of relief and joy, I remember experiencing. Elise is the most delightful (and the easiest to parent) of my ten offspring, and you have reminded me to give thanks for her every day!

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The woman that found Pia is my mom! She has years of experience finding lost children, since she was often tracking ME down. One time when I was quite young we were at the grocery store. She turned away and I was gone. She searched throughout the store to no avail. I had slipped out of the store, gone down to the nearby ice cream shop and talked them into a free ice cream cone and was wandering back to the grocery store, with ice cream on my face no doubt.

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