GGE
GGE=GonnaGetEm
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I knew you must have already seen that photo. I just couldn't look at it and NOT post it, just in case. It would eat at me forever.
I am particularly bothered by cases like this, because of all the same reasons everyone else here is, but I guess I have a slight extra motivation due to the fact that ( 1. ) one of my degrees is in internet programming and research - I always end up having a peculiar sense that I *have* to be able to accomplish what I set out to accomplish when it pertains to internet-research, and it makes me crazy when I cannot (like searching for those 15 other states, which I did for AGES yesterday, without luck)...and then (2. ) my own sibling (a brother) was missing for about 28 years.
I'm not saying this well, I'm sorry. I've had a problem with saying things well when it comes to this kind of thing for most of my life... by the time I was 30 I had already lost both parents and at the time that my last parent died (my mother), one of my older brothers was missing. We didn't know for many years whether he even knew she had died, or whether he himself was alive or dead.
From the time I was six until I was about 34 I thought I had one less sibling here on the earth. My own brother turned up alive and I have tremendous (misplaced) guilt about that, too, when I work on cases at WS.. how can I post and try to help people when my own missing person case had a vastly different outcome than so many others? I never know whether sharing my story will bring hope to people or cause more heartache...
but reading about your sister just breaks my heart now because of all these things and so many others, and I just want so badly for you to wake up one day and get the e-mail that I got... your own version of my "I found our brother Rick!" e-mail... it's just not right, and I'm so very sorry that you're going through this... sorry for rambling SSA, I've never shared my story about my brother before and this isn't the place for it - in your sister's thread. If you or a mod wants me to delete it I will, or you can, I understand. I guess I just want so badly to hug you and then find your sister. It's that simple. and I guess we all want that.
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I am particularly bothered by cases like this, because of all the same reasons everyone else here is, but I guess I have a slight extra motivation due to the fact that ( 1. ) one of my degrees is in internet programming and research - I always end up having a peculiar sense that I *have* to be able to accomplish what I set out to accomplish when it pertains to internet-research, and it makes me crazy when I cannot (like searching for those 15 other states, which I did for AGES yesterday, without luck)...and then (2. ) my own sibling (a brother) was missing for about 28 years.
I'm not saying this well, I'm sorry. I've had a problem with saying things well when it comes to this kind of thing for most of my life... by the time I was 30 I had already lost both parents and at the time that my last parent died (my mother), one of my older brothers was missing. We didn't know for many years whether he even knew she had died, or whether he himself was alive or dead.
From the time I was six until I was about 34 I thought I had one less sibling here on the earth. My own brother turned up alive and I have tremendous (misplaced) guilt about that, too, when I work on cases at WS.. how can I post and try to help people when my own missing person case had a vastly different outcome than so many others? I never know whether sharing my story will bring hope to people or cause more heartache...
but reading about your sister just breaks my heart now because of all these things and so many others, and I just want so badly for you to wake up one day and get the e-mail that I got... your own version of my "I found our brother Rick!" e-mail... it's just not right, and I'm so very sorry that you're going through this... sorry for rambling SSA, I've never shared my story about my brother before and this isn't the place for it - in your sister's thread. If you or a mod wants me to delete it I will, or you can, I understand. I guess I just want so badly to hug you and then find your sister. It's that simple. and I guess we all want that.
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