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To: Neenny who wrote (1196)	5/25/2010 5:32:26 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 1309

Jane, i hope ya'll have fun

To: Neenny who wrote (1196)	5/25/2010 5:35:26 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 1309

We need some great stories

To: Neenny who wrote (1196)	5/25/2010 5:36:39 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 1309

How are you and Mike?

To: Neenny who wrote (1196)	6/25/2010 12:03:03 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 1309

Miracles fuel our hope for Kyron My View • Boy’s disappearance touches many lives as mystery deepens By Brittany Baker , Jun 24, 2010 (4 Reader comments) Angela McBryde uses a touch of face paint to show her support for missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman's family during a June 15 candlelight vigil. The search for the boy is now a criminal investigation. L.E. BASKOW / Portland Tribune ADVERTISEMENTS Kyron Horman’s mysterious disappearance from Skyline School has stunned the Portland area and sent ripples of heartache throughout Oregon and into the United States. Kyron — best known as the boy smiling in front of his science project, peering from behind a pair of rectangle-rimmed glasses and still waiting on a few teeth — has nestled his way into the soft spot of even the most cantankerous amongst us. His personal tragedy has had a potent effect on thousands of people, prompting a nationwide campaign to bring him home. He won’t soon be forgotten. The idea that so many people care deeply for a child they may never meet is seen as strange in a society so focused on self gratification. That being said, it’s an incredibly important phenomenon that represents a resurgence of long-forgotten tenderness in today’s culture. This tenderness has the power to create a rare kind of compassion with the capacity to make things happen — things that exceed all rational possibilities. The case of Kyron Horman has far-reaching implications that go beyond the need for heightened security at schools. What his story and its possible outcomes have been marked by is hope. It’s a hope that goes much deeper than the four-letter word thrown around in casual conversation. It’s hope that brings a breed of supernatural workings that even those without a faith can believe in. It’s hope that has the power to bring about a change in reality through prayer. It’s hope that transcends cultural boundaries to create the stuff only miracles are made of. Kyron Horman has had a strong, unthinkable impact on my life in the few short days that I have been privy to his story. A few times, people have questioned why I feel so strongly about a boy I will probably never meet, and I can’t say I understand why his story breaks my heart with the same intensity regardless of how many times I’ve heard it. All I’m certain of is that he has left an imprint far greater than I can articulate, and moreover has shown me the importance of caring about someone who I’ve never known but nonetheless has taught me lessons I could never have learned in my 14 years of schooling. The most important of these lessons is that to simply recognize injustice is meaningless. To make any real difference requires action, even if the only possible action is to hope without ceasing. For all of those who, like me, have shed tears for this little boy who loved tree frogs and the color red, for all of those who have searched tirelessly for some sign or some answer, and for all of those who have been altered in such an unexplainable manner by this disappearance: Comfort can be found in the absolute power that comes from praying, hoping and pleading for a miracle. Brittany Baker is a journalism student at McMinnville’s Linfield College. She lives in Beaverton. ) Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:33 AM Re: Miracles fuel our hope for Kyron That article said it all. I have been heartbroken since I first heard of his disappearance. I think about him every minute of every day. I check the news constantly hoping and praying he'll be found. I have cried more tears over him than I ever have over a person I don't know. I can't even look at his little smiling face (always smiling) in his pics without crying. I pray every day that this will be the day he is found. I love him in a way I cannot express. Please please find that little boy and bring him home to his family. I love you Kyron. "" (email verified) Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:36 AM Re: Miracles fuel our hope for Kyron Great article. I know my heart has been in anguish over this story. Partly because I have 4 little boys, and one is seven. It is incomprehensible to me to think of him as being safe at school, waiting for him to get off the bus, and having him not be there. I think I would be horrified and heart-broken even if I had no children. The only silver-lining in any of this has been captured well by this author. I pray Kyron is found alive and physically well, with minimal damage psychologically. Even if he is not he has given us a gift. He has shown that in this country most of us firmly believe that children are precious and should be protected, loved, and cherished. Anything else is intolerable. Moreover that it doesn't matter to any of us which child, whose child, or do I know this child. All children are precious and we stand together strong in hope, love, and compassion. "Shareen" (email verified)