I read this piece of news myself and thought how sad it is that the police were so completely clueless at solving something that took the father a few days. It's shameful.
It also makes you think about the state of our law enforcement these days. I'm sure Portugal is a lot worse. That's why whenever the Maddie case is mentioned I cringe...
The father sounds like a generous man, not getting angry over the badly handled case. He must just be happy to have his children back. I can imagine how exhausted he must be, physically and mentally.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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