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Twin sisters Abi and Emma Moore noticed a few years ago how different their south London houses looked as Abi's started filling up with her sons' toy dinosaurs and trains and Emma's turned pink and girly with her daughters' playthings. Already frustrated by the barrage of pretty princesses and sparkly fairies marketed to girls, Emma says she reached a breaking point when she watched her daughter open a huge haul of presents at her sixth birthday party. Out of 40 gifts, Emma recalls, only three were items not designed solely for girls - two games...
Lonez Annoule's search for his 6-year-old daughter Lodz began minutes after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti. He was about to prepare to send the little girl, an American citizen, back home to Miami when catastrophe struck. Annoule was on his way back from his trip to sell used clothing in the southwestern city of Petit-Goâve. His bus came to a halt because piles of dead bodies were blocking the road. "When I saw those bodies, I only thought of one thing - my daughter," says Annoule, 37. "I walked all night, nonstop, from...
...darkness, with long spreads of silence and bursts of cries for help. As he approached his sister-in-law's house in the Port-au-Prince district of Carrefour Feuilles, each block no longer resembled what he remembered. And the four-story apartment building where he had left his daughter was flattened. "When I got to the house, I saw my sister-in law with her arms stretched out, and I knew," says Annoule, fixing his eyes on the ground. (See TIME's coverage of the earthquake in Haiti...
...Haitians still lie underneath the rubble. And while some American families may be leaving with a sense of closure, many Haitian families live without that finality. For Lonez Annoule, closure is more a process than a destination. He says that although he's come to terms with his daughter's death, he remains in disbelief at times. "Everywhere I go, I think I see her," says Annoule. "All I want to do is see her one last time...
Annoule says he is planning a memorial service for his daughter on April 16, which would have been Lodz's seventh birthday. He recalls the frantic efforts to find her weeks ago. Each dust-covered body pulled out, Annoule hoped would be his daughter. "While looking for Lodz, I saved five children but lost mine." Looney thinks of all the countrymen he helped recover and repatriate. "But she was the only one," he says. "It's the only case that's going to haunt...