Continue to hope; Letters.THE McCanns must be devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. concerning the on-going insults that they are being obliged to bear. They still face snide remarks and accusations, with no grounds or proof, that they had a hand in the disappearance of their beloved Maddie, still missing after more than two years. This devout Catholic couple approached the Pope for divine intervention because there is not a scrap of evidence about the whereabouts of this poor little mite mite, small, often microscopic chelicerate that, along with the tick, makes up the order Acarina; it is also related to spiders. The unsegmented mite body is typically oval and compact, although a few, mostly parasites, are elongated and wormlike. . Folk go missing all the time and never reappear reappear Verb to come back into view reappearance n Verb 1. reappear - appear again; "The sores reappeared on her body"; "Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago" . Papergirl Gillian Tate, from Aylesbeare in Devon, has never been found after more than 30 years. Little Ben Needham has been missing for 17 years. We must continue to hope. F C OSBORNE, Sheldon |
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