Wings of a Bird

'But I Just Want to Know, Where's My Baby?' - N.Y. Times
If she didn't have younger siblings to watch and three of her own small children depending on her, Lakerisha Boyd could ... cry for her youngest child, Torry Lee, who is still missing almost two weeks after the storm.
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Officials said there was no way at this point to estimate how many children have been severed from families, but early figures suggest the tally could be in the thousands.
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Some of the parents have told the group that when they were evacuating the city, they placed their children on earlier buses in the mistaken belief that when they got seats on a later bus, the whole family would end up in the same place.
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The difficulties of the mission are almost impossible to overstate. In some cases, the children who have been found are too young to give their names or are too traumatized to speak, even if they are of age to talk. In other cases, investigators have no photographs of the children to circulate because they were left behind in the floods.