Hundreds of people paraded through South Lake Tahoe this morning to honor Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 years old when she was kidnapped in 1991 near her home and who recently reemerged in the Bay Area 18 years after she disappeared.
Dugard’s former classmates, teachers and neighbors came wearing what was her favorite color, pink, and toting hand-made signs reading, “We Love You Jaycee.”
Members of the local Soroptimist Club sold pink T-shirts and cupcakes at the end of the parade route next to South Lake Tahoe Middle School to benefit Dugard and the two daughters, 11 and 15, whom police say were fathered by Dugard's alleged captor, Phillip Garrido.
“We were all hoping she would come back alive -- she’s one of our people,” said Meghan Dorris, 28, Dugard’s former classmate at Meyers Elementary School. “We’re just really grateful and hoping she can recover.”
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Source latimesblogs.latimes.com
Monday, September 7, 2009
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