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It takes a village. We've all heard that phrase, I'm sure.

When a child is born, we're supposed to rally around for the parents to help them out when they're exhausted.

They're tired and they're in unknown and quite scary territory.

For the most, as the children get older and they become adults, dynamics change and people

are left to get on with it.

But in today's case, well, it's a very sobering reminder that the village may be called upon again.

Like, when someone's child goes missing, even if that child is an adult, their parents are brought right back into that unknown, scary territory, back to being

exhausted and tired, trying to bring their baby back.

This is exactly what's been happening in the case of Sam Heslop, a woman who's been missing

for more than four and a half years.

This is the story of how her village are trying to bring her back home.

I'm going to There was often a lot of evenings of like dancing in the kitchen, even if it was a school night.

I think my times with Sam, it was just always, she would try and get the most fun out of any situation.

Even if we were working together, we were doing a shift that we really didn't want to do.

And it was like we had woken up at 4 o'clock in the morning.

She'd still try and get the most fan of it.

These are the voices of Kate Vernals and Kate Owen.

They're friends of Missing Woman Sam Heslot.

A woman who went missing in 2021 at the age of 41.

She'd now be 45 and her family and friends have no idea if Sam is dead or alive. Since she went missing, Sam's friends and family have never wavered in their

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