Dear Michaela: Love

Monday, January 24, 2011

Love

I spent a pretty sleepless night last night, and as I lay awake one of the thoughts that kept coming back is why do we bother with this thing, love? Think of all the pain and heartache we could avoid if we could just avoid love.

Today is Michaela's birthday. I will try to gather my thoughts later, but right now I am too sad and too tired to write anything. I guess I will just conclude one thing ... love is worth it. It is worth every price we have to pay for it. It is worth fighting for, living for, even dying for.

Like the popular quote that goes around facebook -- "Everybody is going to hurt you. You just have to figure out which ones are worth suffering for."

And on this day, I will once again answer the question, would I choose never to have loved Michaela so I never would have suffered the pain I have? No. I love her. I have always loved her and always will.

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MaryJanuary 24, 2011 at 12:47 PM
So well said, Sharon (as always!)

As the other saying goes... "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

You and Michaela are in my thoughts today.
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AnonymousJanuary 24, 2011 at 12:51 PM
I have been wracking my brain all day today to try and figure out what to say to you today Sharon. I cannot find the right words. So I will send you and Michaela my love and thank you for allowing me to be a small part of your life. Robin Painter
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AnonymousJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:54 PM
Sharon, Michaela has been in my thoughts and prayers EVERY day. I pray everyday that God will bring justice for this sweet child and that you will be able to witness it (I do believe that there WILL be justice for her). I wish that there was a magic wand that could bring you together right now...Sharon, God will bring you together again - that was how He intended it to be - and no mortal can take that away from you. May this new year bring you comfort, peace and the answers you long for. I wish Michaela a happy birthday, and pray that she can be back in your arms again. I am praying for all missing children today.

Love you, Michaela and Sharon!

Radhika
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AnonymousJanuary 28, 2011 at 2:49 PM
Just watched the movie 'Tangled' and it reminded me so much of Michaela...I pray she gets a fairy tale ending too...God Bless Little Angel, Wishing you had a Happy Birthday, wherever you are...x
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Vintage PimentoJanuary 29, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Hi Sharon,
Thinking of you today. Sending prayers also.
Beth
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Michaela you can call me from any country by dialing 00-1-510-701-5449. (This is for Michaela only, please, or to provide information about Michaela's current location. Everyone else please feel free to comment on this blog or email me at sharon.murch@gmail.com or missingmichaela@gmail.com. Thanks.)

ميخاييلا خطفت بالتاسعة من العمر في عام ١٩٨٨. أنا اكون أمها وما زلت

ابحث عنها. رجاء التراسل علا هاد الأميل إذ لديك خبر عنها.
missingmichaela@gmail.com
ميخاييلا احبكِ كثيرا!! ارجعي الا البيت!

Michaela was the victim of a witnessed stranger abduction, on November 19, 1988, at age nine. (Her story is below.) If you have any information about Michaela, please email me at sharon.murch@gmail.com, or call Hayward Police Department at 1-800-222-3999 or 510-293-7079.

"If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together ... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you." From Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh. From my dear friend Chris Orrey to me. From me to Michaela, and to all my children. I love you all so much.

"God put rainbows in the clouds so that each of us, in the dreariest and most dreaded moments, can see a possibility of hope." Maya Angelou

Michaela's poem, written in the dark early morning hours one week before she was kidnapped:

The people knock on doors of steel

The people knock, the people kneel

They think of things that aren't real

Outside the doors of steel

The people walk, the people know

That outside those doors

The people know

The people think that you may say

The people think that they, too, may

They lack the confidence you have

They think it's real, the dreams you have

The dreams they feel

About Michaela ...

My daughter, Michaela, was kidnapped at the age of nine, on November 19, 1988. She and her best friend had ridden their scooters two blocks to the neighborhood market, to purchase some goodies. When they went in the store, they left their scooters by the door. When they came out, at first they forgot they had brought the scooters and started to walk home. Halfway across the parking lot they remembered, and turned back. One of the scooters was not where they had left it. Michaela spotted it first, a few parking spaces down from the door, next to a parked car. She went to get it, and when she bent over to pick it up, a man jumped out of the car, grabbed her from behind, threw her screaming into his car, and took off with her.

The search for her has been massive and long. It has never become a cold case, but is very active with both the Hayward Police Department and the FBI. We have several very strong leads, but getting that final piece of information that will lead us directly to her has eluded us so far.

I continue to believe that Michaela might still be alive, and that for any number of reasons she might be afraid to come home, and because of that, my mission is to keep reaching out to her, hoping she will see it and will know that she is loved.

To Michaela ... there is nothing that could ever change our love for you -- nothing that you could have done, nothing that could have been done to you. We just want you to come home, and hold you safely in our arms, and if you have children, we will bring them safely home as well. Michaela, you are present with us, very much alive to us. You are a part of your family always, in everything we do, every gathering, every celebration, every small conversation in the kitchen.

Michaela, my phone number is listed at the top of this column. You can call me from anywhere in the world, or e-mail me at missingmichaela@gmail.com or sharon.murch@gmail.com, or you can leave an anonymous comment on this blog if you prefer, but please include some detail only you would know so that I can know it is you. And yes, Michaela, my name is different, but my love for you is the same, and so is your dad's and your brothers' and sister's. We have moved, but we are living in Nana's house, so it will not be a strange place to you.

I love you forever, Michaela.

... mom

Wherever you may be ...

ميخاييلا خطفت بالتاسعة من العمر في عام ١٩٨٨. أنا اكون أمها وما زلت
ابحث عنها. رجاء التراسل علا هاد الأميل إذ لديك خبر عنها.
missingmichaela@gmail.com
ميخاييلا احبكِ كثيرا!! ارجعي الا البيت!

Микаэла была похищена в возрасте девяти лет в 1988 году. Я - ее мама и я все еще ищу ее. Если у вас есть какая-либо информация о том, где она может быть, пожалуйста напишите мне сообщение на missingmichaela@gmail.com. Микаэла, если ты прочитаешь это, знай, что я всегда люблю и буду любить тебя что бы ни случилось. Пожалуйста возвращайся домой.

Michaela a été enlevée à l'âge de neuf ans en 1988. Je suis sa mère et je suis toujours à sa recherche. Si vous avez des informations sur l'endroit où elle pourrait se trouver, s'il vous plait écrivez-moi à missingmichaela@gmail.com. Michaela, si tu lis ce message, sache que je t'aime depuis toujours et pour toujours, quoi qu'il arrive. S'il te plaît, reviens à la maison.

"Michaela fue secuestrada a la edad de nueve años en 1988. Yo soy su mama y aun la estoy buscando. Si usted tiene información acerca de donde ella podria estar, por favor envieme un correo electronico amissingmichaela@gmail.com.

Micahela, si tu lees esto, yo te amo siempre y por siempre, no importa lo que paso. Porfavor regresa a casa."

"Micahela è stata rapita all'età di nove anni nel 1988. Io sono sua madre e la sto cercando. Se avete informazioni circa dove possa essere, per favore contattatemi a questo indirizzo missingmichaela@gmail.com

Micahela, se stai leggendo questo, io ti amo sempre e ti amerò per sempre, non importa quanto tempo sia passato. Per favore, torna a casa."

"Michaela wurde 1988 im Alter von neun Jahren entführt. Ich bin ihre Mutter und suche noch immer nach ihr. Falls Sie irgendwelche Informationen über Michaelas Aufenthalt haben, schreiben Sie bitte an missingmichaela@gmail.com.
Michaela, falls du diese Nachricht hier liest sollst du wissen, dass ich dich für immer und ewig lieben werde, komme was wolle. Bitte, komm nach Hause zurück!"

Dear Michaela

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