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june262004
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Keep Praying for Natalee
I hope they find her alive she is so beautiful!
Ala. Teen Vanishes in Aruba
Thursday, June 02, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Police in helicopters and all-terrain vehicles searched outlying areas of the Caribbean island of Aruba for a missing Alabama high school girl Thursday, while hundreds of local residents and tourists joined the hunt by posting flyers.
Natalee Holloway's family asked Aruba radio and television stations to broadcast a reward offer, though they did not specify an amount, said her mother, Beth Holloway Twitty. The family promised to reward anyone who brings the missing teenager safely to a police station or hospital, she said.
Holloway, 18, was among 125 seniors from Mountain Brook High School, near Birmingham, Ala., on a five-day trip to the Dutch Caribbean island.
FBI officials, Aruba police and Dutch authorities have been searching for her since Monday, when she did not show up for her group's return flight. Several family members traveled to Aruba to help in the search.
"Everybody has been quite supportive," Holloway Twitty told The Associated Press. "I am not leaving. I am going to have Natalee with me."
Holloway was last seen by friends getting into a vehicle and leaving the Carlos and Charlie's nightclub in the capital of Oranjestad before dawn Monday.
Police questioned and released three Aruban men who said they dropped Holloway off early Monday at the Holliday Inn, where she had been staying about 3 miles from the capital of Oranjestad, said police assistant inspector Jules Sambo. The three were not suspects, he said.
"We don't have any indication as to if she is alive," Sambo said. "The whole population is aware that she is missing. The police are doing everything to find her."
Police, using helicopters and all-terrain vehicles and patrol cars, were combing the Arashi area in the northwestern tip of Aruba, a rugged terrain of sand dunes, craters and beaches. The area is near the Holiday Inn.
More than 100 people, mostly American tourists, offered to help during a gathering Thursday morning at the Holiday Inn, organized by International Friends of Aruba, a group of wives of Americans working on the island. The volunteers were distributing fliers with the teenager's photo in various parts of the island.
"She has a very loving family and is a very happy girl," said Haleigh Uncapher, a classmate who delivered a flier to local Magic radio station.
Aruba, with a population of about 72,000, is off the north coast of Venezuela and is part of the Netherlands Antilles.
Why would she get in the car with men she didn't know  Maybe she was forced
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Shorty
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
She really IS beautiful....and yes, I will definitely keep praying, but I have to honestly admit, I don't have a good feeling.
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june262004
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
Posted by Shorty
She really IS beautiful....and yes, I will definitely keep praying, but I have to honestly admit, I don't have a good feeling.
I don't either 
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
It is SO unbelievably scary.
I'm not much older than this poor girl, and I can very easily remember what it was like to be 18, and convince my parents that a "school trip" to such-and-such a place was safe, chaperoned, etc. I'm sure this girl did the same thing, but look what happened...
It's a harsh reality that I wish we weren't reminded of so often.
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june262004
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
I was talking to a lady the other day who has a daughter her age. I said its so sad that you can't even go away with your friends anymore
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NewYawkah
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
how horrible!! I feel so bad for her and for her family!!!
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Shorty
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
here's another question, too:
How come the kids at my high school had to cancel a NJ trip because they're not allowed to travel off LI since 9/11, but this school in Alabama allows 125 senior to fly to a foreign country?!?!
I'm not saying I disagree w/ that opportunity, or that this couldn't have happened in our backyard, I'm just saying that with the world the way it is right now, everyone has to be super careful of where they are, who they're with, etc. This girl (while drunk) was picked up by 2 random guys. Where were her friends? Chaperones?
This shouldn't have happened. Poor girl.  
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june262004
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
Do we know she was drunk?
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Shorty
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
That's what the papers/news stories have reported most recently -
at first her friends wouldn't tell the authorities that she was drunk, 'cause they didn't want them to feel "she had it coming," but after the FBI spoke to them individually, they all said that she had been drinking and they all felt guilty for leaving her.
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
then again, who knows if we really "know" anything.
The media works in funny ways sometimes.
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june262004
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
W T F are you serious... After a recent thread I learned that we do stupid things as kids but NICE F-ING FRIENDS HOW DO YOU LEAVE SOMEONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO YOU LET THEM GO WITH SOME GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
some friends.
They were all drinking, and apparently, not one of them had the sense/self-control to regulate the group.
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
Poor girl . The outcome isn't looking so good, but hopefully they find her and surprise everybody 
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
ANd now that her friend Admitted she was drunk .. WHY WOULD THEY LEAVE HER.. Aruba is stilla foreign country.. even though they are " tourist friendly" an how can adult chaporones l;et them go to a bar???? and why woud she leave with people she did not know.. and how come they can not find any clues..THE ISLAND IS NOT THAT BIG!!!!!!!
I am just so mad that noting has been done and they can not find anything....
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Jesaroo
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
i hate to say it, but i honestly dont believe she is alive anymore
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
And where were the chaperones???
I'm hoping they find her too...but now it seems unlikely. Aruba is not that big of an island...
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
Posted by Stefanie
And where were the chaperones???
I'm hoping they find her too...but now it seems unlikely. Aruba is not that big of an island...
I know that is what i was thinking i was there on my homeymoon and we went across the whole island in like 1 1/2 .... and if she was in the water do you thinks sharks could have eaten her by now?
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
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And where were the chaperones???
I'm hoping they find her too...but now it seems unlikely. Aruba is not that big of an island...
I know that is what i was thinking i was there on my homeymoon and we went across the whole island in like 1 1/2 .... and if she was in the water do you thinks sharks could have eaten her by now?
I definately think that sharks would have eaten her by now...
They've had tons of people diving off the beaches to search for her...but anyone who has been to Aruba knows that once you get out to the ocean part or on certain areas of the island, the current is VERY strong.
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LadyMaravilla
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
we were just talking about that! How horrible...she is in my prayers.
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
This is such a disturbing story ...... I was thinking maybe they took her to that dessert part where the ruins are .... ARGH I wish i could help ... there was this one road i went down in a car with my husband it was scary it as very rural and scary
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june262004
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
Posted by unbelievable
This is such a disturbing story ...... I was thinking maybe they took her to that dessert part where the ruins are .... ARGH I wish i could help ... there was this one road i went down in a car with my husband it was scary it as very rural and scary
Ive never been to Aruba but they said that is by the hotel they were staying at I think.
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
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Posted by unbelievable
This is such a disturbing story ...... I was thinking maybe they took her to that dessert part where the ruins are .... ARGH I wish i could help ... there was this one road i went down in a car with my husband it was scary it as very rural and scary
Ive never been to Aruba but they said that is by the hotel they were staying at I think.
what was the hotel name ???
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june262004
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
Super 8 maybe???
NOPE I LIED HOLIDAY INN
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
Posted by june262004
Super 8 maybe???
NOPE I LIED HOLIDAY INN
which was right by my hotel that hotel was a dump when i was there is was like a crack den
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june262004
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Re: Keep Praying for Natalee
Posted by unbelievable
Posted by june262004
Super 8 maybe???
NOPE I LIED HOLIDAY INN
which was right by my hotel that hotel was a dump when i was there is was like a crack den
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