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Indonesia Girl Back With Family After 2004 Tsunami (1010L)

Notes on my thoughts,

The family, who say the girl's original name is Meri Yuranda, is also now

reactions and questions as I

convinced.

read:

The Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations hit

Aceh — closest to the epicenter of the magnitude-9.1 quake that spawned the

towering waves — the hardest.

With tens of thousands of bodies washed to sea in that province alone, many

families continue to cling to hope of finding lost loved ones. Reunions, however,

are rare. And all announced in the last five years have turned out to be untrue.

Even so, some mothers continue to believe a child is theirs even after DNA tests

prove otherwise.

Either way, without any challenges to the claims, Wati now has a family.

Yusniar binti Ibrahim Nur, the mother, told The Associated Press she had all the

evidence she needed.

"She has her father's face," the 35-year-old woman said by telephone. "And

when I saw the scar over her eye and mole on her hip, I was even more sure."

It doesn't worry her, she said, that the girl and her husband have different

accounts of what happened on the day the tsunami hit their tiny village of Ujong

Baroh just outside of Meulaboh.

Wati remembers her father putting her into a boat with her younger sister, long

presumed dead as well, and then getting separated. She says she remembers

being surrounded by water and crying.

Her father says he put both of his daughters on the roof of their house hoping

they'd be safe.

"Maybe she fell into the boat, maybe someone helped her. I just don't know,"

said Yusniar.

"I just thank God my prayers have been answered," she said. "For years, I

searched everywhere. I'd really given up."

Gade, F. Indonesia girl back with family after 2004 tsunami. Associated Press. Retrieved

January 3, 2011. Available at

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