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Carry Gibson cast the sideways glance at her 16-year-old brother, Nicholas Barclay, as they

sat in a Spanish airport awaiting their flight home. He appeared on edge and didn't make

eye contact, nervously jiggling his leg up and down. Leaning over, Nicholas whispered

to his older sister that he was anxious about their impending long flight to their home

in San Antonio, Texas. Carry tried her best to comfort him. As the loudspeaker advised

the waiting passengers that it was time to board, she playfully elbowed Nicholas in the ribs.

Are you ready to go home, she asked? Nicholas nodded.

Well, let's get the fuck out of here she replied. Following a 15-hour flight, the siblings

plane touched down in Texas on October 18, 1997.

Carry waited while Nicholas grabbed a small suitcase which contained his only belongings

from the plane's overhead compartment. Carry coaxed her younger brother from the plane,

explaining that their whole family was at the airport to welcome him home.

Nicholas's mother Beverly Dollyhoid waited in anticipation. She watched from the jet bridge

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