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Hopefully this story can get out and someone praying would maybe remember this story.

I mean, how does someone vanish just like that at that age?

I just remember as a kid yesterday when we would laugh and I remember the pain that she would share with me when her dad got married.

And the happy moments that we shared with my grandmother before we would go to church and the dumb things we would do to give my grandmother a hard time and I could hear my grandmother's laughter.

It's been 35 years. It's been 35 years. I want justice for her. You know, I want to know what happened to her demeanor and her personality. She was such a docile, loving, kindhearted girl.

I've always had this hold of my heart. You know, and I think not knowing always this hurts more than long as you know someone has passed. You know how to cope with that and you know that that person has.

He's living in a different life somewhere else, and life in well, then that's okay too.

15-year-old Angelica Longoria, or Angel as she was known to those close to her, disappeared from El Monte, California on November 23, 1985.

At the time, Angel was living at home with her father, stepmother, brothers, and steps siblings.

The household was very strict, and when Angel was caught with a boy, she was punished physically. According to Angel's father and stepmother, Angel ran away that night, never to be seen or heard from again.

Over the years, some family members have begun to wonder if there's more to this story of what happened to Angel Longoria back in November of 1985.

Amarisa, and from Wondery, this is episode 239 of The Vanished, Angelica Longoria's story.

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Angel's story is one that has been mostly forgotten with the passage of time, over the past 34 years, except for a handful of family members who continue seeking answers.

If you look through newspaper archives, you won't find any mention of Angel. For the police, she was just a 15-year-old girl who ran away in the 80s.

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