adults, the yellow ribbons marking the place where michalae was taken, her mother replacing the tattered and faded ones with each passing year. >> it's like a big hole in the center of my life. and it's impossible to get away from it. >> when you heard the news out of cleveland, what was your first reaction? >> this was like inflating the balloon so it would carry me along for a while. i put all the news on my blog because i hope that michaela would see it. i hope she would see that it's possible to get help. it's possible to get free. >> the cleveland story also makes others believe. michaela's mother trying to keep interest in her daughter's case alive. for every amanda, gina and michelle, there are hundreds of michaelas. law enforcement estimates about 2,000 children go missing every single day in the u.s.