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Originally Posted by Niamh.
That's true but it would still be good for his family anyway. It must have been sheer hell for them all these years, imagining the worst etc I feel sick to my stomach even thinking about it happening to one of my kids
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Nothing would ever take away from the fact that your child had gone missing, of course, but I kind of wonder if after so many years you would even really know what to feel if you were ever unexpectedly reunited with your missing child? Like, 40 years later, this person is a fully grown adult who hasn't a clue who he "really" is - like say one of these people coming forward is actually Sandy, he's not going to suddenly go by the name Sandy if he's been known as Jimmy for the last 40 years. Is he going to call his real parents mum and dad? It's just all so bizarre... surely it must come to a point where, even if you do get reunited, it's as if they died the day they went missing. The child that you loved to pieces ceased to exist because they were taken away from you and you didn't get to take them to school, watch them get their first job, fall in love for the first time, you don't know their friends or their hobbies, you don't even know what their voice sounds like... just so crazy to think about.
I hope there is a happy ending for them after all these years... but I'm not sure they can even have a happy ending - they might get a resolution but I don't think they'd ever be happy, not really...