{"id":4169,"date":"2025-01-06T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:51:25","slug":"woman-goes-to-neighbors-garage-sale-finds-her-missing-daughters-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=4169","title":{"rendered":"Woman Goes to Neighbor\u2019s Garage Sale, Finds Her Missing Daughter\u2019s Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaylee\u2019s world was turned upside down when her daughter, Amanda, went missing. Two weeks passed with no word despite relentless searches and police involvement. Hope dwindled until one afternoon, while posting more flyers, Kaylee stopped at a neighbor\u2019s garage sale and was horrified to see Amanda\u2019s jacket\u2014the same one she wore the night she disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate, Kaylee questioned her neighbor, Angela, who revealed she had bought the jacket from a thrift store near the bus station. Clinging to this slim lead, Kaylee rushed to the shop. The seller vaguely recalled a girl matching Amanda\u2019s description arguing over the price, needing money for a bus ticket. Searching the pockets, Kaylee found a scrap of paper with an address in a distant town\u2014Amanda\u2019s biological mother\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Driven by hope, Kaylee followed the trail. Although Amanda had already left, Kaylee wouldn\u2019t give up. Outside an abandoned house, she finally spotted her daughter. Their tearful embrace marked the end of fear and the beginning of healing as they returned home, together and renewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaylee\u2019s world was turned upside down when her daughter, Amanda, went missing. Two weeks passed with no word despite relentless searches and police involvement. Hope dwindled until one afternoon, while posting more flyers, Kaylee stopped at a neighbor\u2019s garage sale and was horrified to see Amanda\u2019s jacket\u2014the same one she wore the night she disappeared. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}