A girl from my hometown went missing Monday morning around 7:30 AM. I've heard about it over the Internet, concerned friends posting it on Facebook and Twitter. I typed in her name on the local (hometown) news websites and nothing came up. They're not treating it like a kidnapping or an emergency because they assume she ran away.
What if she didn't? What if someone took her away from our town? No one outside the friend circle of people posting her name and her picture or tweeting with #findhannah tagged onto the end, knows to be looking for her. No one knows what to be on the search for.
Not to mention, if she felt so isolated and alone as to need to run away from home, wouldn't you think that isolating her further by not putting it out there that people are looking for her, people are missing her, or people are worried about her would only make matters worse? I find it frustrating. She deserves a bit more effort than we're giving her. Missing people deserve to be looked for. It frustrates me to know that there are people in our town who don't know she's missing. I called home, and they hadn't even heard. So if they were to see her out on the road or at the store, they wouldn't know she was missing, or that people were missing her. I just feel like social networking sites shouldn't be the only media that they're using to get the word out.
I'm praying that she's safe. I'm praying that she ran away-- because that would mean she isn't left out there completely alone fighting for her life. I am praying that someone finds her. I am praying that she is returned to her home and that she is assured that people do care. People do miss her. People are looking.
I pray that someone gives her the help that she needs.
I pray that we find Hannah.
--Always,
H.Eilene
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