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'Dead' girl turns up.


A YOUNG woman shocked her family by turning up alive and well - a week after her funeral.

Relatives of Maria Fabiana Franco, 18, thought she was a ghost and would not let her in the house.

Maria, from Vitoria, Brazil, had been missing for two weeks when her sister wrongly identified the body of a young woman as being her.

The body was buried bur·y  
tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies
1. To place in the ground: bury a bone.

2.
a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter.

b.
 in the family grave and the family were still mourning MOURNING. This word has several significations. 1. It is the apparel worn at funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the death of some one, and to honor his memory. 2. The expenses paid for such apparel.
     2.
 a week later when she turned up.
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Publication:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Sep 26, 2006
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