Article: Jaycee Dugard's freedom celebrated in South Lake Tahoe parade

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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