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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 03:14 PM
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Good news, all the missing people on the D.C. Mall have been found..
I was heartsick over the developmentally disabled young man who was missing. I'm glad he was found. What a terrible ordeal for the family.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0109/587841.html

WASHINGTON - A young developmentally disabled man who was lost on the Mall during the Inauguration Tuesday has been reunited with his family after spending 48 hours by himself.
Steven was found in good condition near the U.S. Capitol Thursday after what was an agonizing search for Calvin and Kathy Johnson -- Steven's parents and legal guardians. Steven is 21 but, they say, has the mental capacity of someone much younger. They worried thei son was cold, confused and very much afraid.

"We wanna get him to the hotel and get him cleaned up and everything," Calvin Johnson, Steven's father, said. "Feed him and whatever he wants."

"He says at times he slept under a tent and did a lot of walking around," Kathy Johnson added, describing what her son had told her of his ordeal. "He's slow at talking about a lot of stuff so as the days go by, we'll find out everything from him
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 03:16 PM
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1. thank goodness they are all united.
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