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Article: Jaycee Dugard's freedom celebrated in South Lake Tahoe parade
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- Meghan Dorris remembers her classmate as a
quiet girl she played games with on the playground.
Then one morning 18 years ago, Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped on her
way to a school bus stop while Dorris made her way safely to the
next bus stop on the line.
Both were blond fifth-grade girls headed to Meyers Elementary
School by bus. Dorris' mother panicked after hearing an all-points
bulletin at her workplace, fearing it was her daughter who had been
snatched from the street.
It wasn't. But the sense that horrific crimes didn't happen in
the area was gone.
"The safety of the community -- we were robbed of that," Dorris
said.
As Dorris grew up, she stayed close with about a ...
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