Mistaken Identity

[Sgt. Longhorn]

Has anybody else seen this? I'm not sure which forum it belongs on, so maybe a mod can move it, if needed.

As a parent I don't know how to feel about this. I can totally see how it could happen from a family perspective, but the professionals really blew this one.

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[Bevo04]

I remember this on the news when it first happened. Sad on all levels.

 

[RoundRobin]

All I can say is wow.

RR

 

[DoobieWah]

The excerpt was from the "happy half" of the story.

There's another side that's awfully tragic.






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[BattleshipTexas]

That's an amazing story.

 

[Sgt. Longhorn]

I watched the Dateline special last night. What an amazing bunch of people. You can say what you want about Christians in general, but these folks really live their faith.

In a situation practically designed to engender hard feelings, both families handled this with a dignity and generosity that is a credit to them. I may buy the book just to support these classy people.

All the stories we hear about people mistreating each other and the acrimony that seems to increase every year really beats me down. It's really cool to see a horrible situation handled so admirably.

 

[LdyLnghrn]

I picked up the book in the bookstore today and thumbed thru it, reading parts of the chapter where the one family comes to the conclusion that the girl in the hospital isn't their daughter, and the other family is coming to grips with the fact that their daughter isn't dead, and has been cared for by another family for 5 weeks. I have to say that what i read was so powerful and heart-wrenching, that I made the decision to put the book back on the shelf. I hope to be able to read it some day, but I just am not sure I can handle it right now. That's partly due to the fact that I've had to bury my own child, and reading about other parents going thru similar circumstance really gets the empathy going in me. Anyway, the faith present in both of these families is nothing short of amazing, and the book appears to be a very well written and powerful story.

 

[Statalyzer]

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[Perham1]

Am I the only one who thought "Carly" needed to be seriously *****-slapped during page 1?