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31 May 2006

When the best day of your life is the worst day of someone else's. What a horrible, amazing, heartbreaking story. I'm stunned.

post by: jrossi4r at: 23:40 | 14 comments

Saw this on the local news at 11 o'clock. I just can't imagine it.

posted by arse_hat 31 May | 23:48

I can't imagine having to sit down and write that story, let alone experience it.

Seems like somebody made a whopper of an assumption early on and nobody ever questioned it.

posted by stilicho 01 June | 00:43

Wow.

posted by kmellis 01 June | 00:43

Holy shit.

posted by dg 01 June | 00:48

blog

And my hunch is right. The families are handling this together, which is appropriate since they're all victims.

Hopefully having recognizable family with her from now on will accelerate her recovery.

posted by stilicho 01 June | 00:58

That's incredible. Absolutely incredible.

posted by me3dia 01 June | 01:22

I saw heard of this same thing before, a few years back.

posted by StickyCarpet 01 June | 03:56

Wow, Taylor. My Mom went to Taylor. She tried to get me to go to Taylor and I was like, the middle of nowhere, child please. But Wow. What a sad story.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 June | 06:44

That's really overwhelming, I can't imagine being in their shoes.

posted by chewatadistance 01 June | 06:52

When I first saw the story I wondered how on earth they could not have realised it was their daughter, until I saw the photos of the two girls side by side.

posted by essexjan 01 June | 09:40

Yea, plus, if they one who's still alive is all banged up, with the bandages around a lot of her face, asleep... .anyone could make the mistake. Just awful.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 June | 11:22

Stunning. jrossi's title says it all.

posted by deborah 01 June | 13:33

Oh my god, that story is just amazingly bittersweet and unbelievable.

posted by LeeJay 01 June | 18:00

I cannot imagine what both families are going through. My thoughts and prayers go out to them.

posted by redvixen 01 June | 18:21

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