her name is pepper. i lived a secret life. she was kidnapped at age four. we got in the car, and we never went back. she spent decades trying to find her way home again, and she finally made it. or, so she thought. i said, i think that i am rhonda patricia christine. i said, do you know her? and there was a long pause. her story had many ups and downs. when i looked at the email, i just could not even believe it. but after so many tears, so many years and so many turns in her story. i was like, wow. there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. it is amazing, the best gift ever. welcome to dateline. a four year old girl was adopted and raised by her kidnappers. for decades, she searched for her family, and her identity. her story has an extraordinary ending, but as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. our story begins with this much mother of a teenage daughter. a woman who had spent much of h
four. we got in the car, and we never went back. she spent decades trying to find her way home again, and she finally made it. or, so she thought. i said, i think that i am rhonda patricia christine. i said, do you know her? and there was a long pause. her story had many ups and downs. when i looked at the email, i just could not even believe it. but after so many tears, so many years and so many turns in her story. i was like, wow. there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. it is amazing, the best gift ever. welcome to dateline. a four year old girl was adopted and raised by her kidnappers. for decades, she searched for her family, and her identity. her story has an extraordinary ending, but as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. our story begins with this much mother of a teenage daughter. a woman who had spent much of her life trying to figure out who she was. what was her name? where did s
When i looked at the email, i just couldnt even believe it. But after so many tears, so many years, and so many turns in her story i was like whoa. There are still more stunning twists to be revealed. Its amazing. Its the best gift ever. Lost and found. Hello. Welcome to dateline extra. A young girl was abducted at the age of four and raised by her kidnapper. For the next four decades she searched for her family, her name, and herself. Her story has an extraordinary ending and as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. Here is keith morrison. Our story begins with this mother of a teenage daughter. A woman who had spent most of her life trying to figure out
was absent mostly. Long stretches away, punk wa. We would go see him because he was coming in from the navy, and so it was an exciting moment, and she would get us all dressed up, and it was the anticipation of going to the shipyard and having a lot of attention. I think as a child. The memories are how she survived it all
whereas england s batting was swashbuckling, it was far more attritional from australia, but it mayjust be effective enough. here s more from our correspondentjoe wilson. it was gloomy above the oval certainly at the start of the second day. for it seemed that shirley didn t know how to approach their innings so that they reallyjust got stuck for them took a stunning catch, one headed from joe root for the pen for a while we could sell pretty steadily. steve smith having survived a millimetre run out decision then took control for a well for australia until he hit the ball straight up into the air. they are still held the cat that he was gone for 71. changing later in the day with some tail and hitting. murray and cummings took a great catch on the boundary from ben stokes to finally get rid of the australian captain england will bat on day three in their second innings for the 12 runs behind. i think we know who they will bad positively and we already know there is so
i don t like being the to school. i did like been absent all the time. they got themselves up every morning and went to school. and kept going. and then pepper was 12, eight of those years with shirley when she saw her chance to escape. and seized it. she made herself useful as a babysitter to the couple next door in room 109. and when the family moved out of the motel, pepper went with them. but it didn t last long. pepper s new household caught in his own spiral of alcoholism and dysfunction, was just troubled and messy as her own life was. she swallowed her pride and moved back to room 110, colonial motel. even though by then, says pepper, shirley didn t seem to care much what she did. i remember when i was trying to so call all, runaway, plot my escape. before it went into action, i was in my mind going, i m going to show her. she ll care. i remember thinking that. but she didn t care. she didn t come to get me.