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- Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 12th Jun, 2006 - 1:40am
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Identity Mix-up Stuns Crash Victims' Families
Can you imagine if someone tells you that your daughter is dead but yet she is in fact alive and taken care of by other parents who thought it was their own daughter?
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| CALEDONIA, Mich. (June 1) - Whitney Cerak and Laura VanRyn looked remarkably alike, both attractive young women with blond hair, similar facial features and the same build and height. They were together the night of April 26, returning from banquet preparations with a group from Taylor University, when a tractor-trailer slammed into their university van, peeling off the side and killing five people. Cerak's family was told their 18-year-old was among the dead. VanRyn's parents were told their 22-year-old daughter was alive but seriously injured and in a coma. The VanRyns kept vigil at the young woman's bedside for weeks, but as she gained consciousness, she began saying things that didn't make sense. This week, they discovered that the recovering patient wasn't their daughter at all. She was Whitney Cerak. "I still can't get over it. It's like a fairy tale,'' said Cerak's grandfather Emil Frank. "It's just so unbelievable. But we feel just as much for the family that found out it was not their daughter.'' |
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Post Date: 11th Jun, 2006 - 6:56pm / Post ID: #
Families Victims Crash Stuns Mix-up Identity
I can't imagine getting my hopes up that my daughter was alive only to find out that it wasn't true. How crushing and utterly demoralizing would that be? They got all excited with joy that their daughter was alive and then have that hope and joy snatched back from them again.
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What is amazing to me is that they could not see that it was not their daughter. I suppose the poor girl was in such bad physical shape that they could not see the difference.
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