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🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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0:00.0 | April Don Andrews was a 15 year old from P Ridge, Arkansas. |
0:04.0 | She was a shy girl who had many siblings. |
0:07.0 | On Saturday, November 18, 2006, April and her family had taken a trip to a store. |
0:14.0 | When they got back, April decided to walk to a local church that was having a clothing drive. |
0:20.0 | She was never seen again. |
0:25.0 | I'm at to do. Oh, Since I'm now middle-aged, and I'm going to be turning 50 this year. I think I can say that most adults long to get something from their youth back. |
1:09.0 | Maybe it's their looks. Maybe the chance to make different choices the second time around. |
1:16.6 | Maybe it would be the opportunity to actually take all those naps and go to bed early like our parents |
1:22.1 | wanted. Instead of fighting them like we all did. |
1:26.1 | I mean really, what were we thinking? Or maybe it would be the chance to see everything as new again. |
1:34.5 | To not know what's out there in the world. |
1:37.7 | To not be so jaded about the future and the prospect of confronting our own deaths. |
1:44.0 | To not know about war and poverty and abuse and trolls and yes, |
1:51.0 | disappearances. |
1:53.0 | Because there is nothing more heartwarming and revealing, |
1:57.0 | and dare I say it, funny, |
2:00.0 | then a kid's unfiltered, honest, and ironic view of how everything works. |
2:06.0 | For adults to do it? |
2:08.0 | Well, comedians are the only ones that come close. |
2:12.0 | Well, April Andrews was a girl who viewed the world much like I've mentioned here, |
2:17.0 | with innocence, but maybe even more so due to her learning disability. Then she was gone. And the only witness connected |
2:27.1 | to April's case is a little girl like April. And we adults are left to wonder what she saw through a child's eyes. |
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