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foreign [Music] a few months before my mom gave birth to me she started writing a diary
and it starts off on the first page saying to my dear Savannah someday I'll give this journal to you so that you can
hopefully understand your mother foreign [Music] I was born in Savannah but I didn't know
that Savannah Lee Barnett I grew up on the Sunshine Coast in Australia it is the most magnificent
place [Music] I knew my mom as Alex my entire life but in reality she wasn't Alex at all
she was Lee come on leave on it in April of 1994 I got a phone call that my dearest friend Lee had disappeared
I thought oh no don't let this be true imagined that my good friendly would be the subject of an international Manhunt
our investigations spanned the United States and the globe we searched Belize Central America
and South Africa Dorothy Lee was very equipped running from the law she thought about this she
was planned she was determined I feel the FBI and every other law enforcement agency
underestimated me the FBI more than met their match when they Tangled with Dorothy Lee Barnett
welcome to Malaysia this is our home did you at all think I'm gonna get caught they're gonna get me every day
every day I thought this was going to be one of those Unsolved Mysteries that would
never be solved Samantha until 2011 when we had the tip that she was living in Australia
I remember getting a call when I was up at school and my mom needed me to jump on a plane and come down because she was
getting arrested two decades later authorities have arrested her in Australia when I heard
that Alex wasn't Alex let's see Alex where's Alex I was absolutely gobsmacked and amazed I thought wow what a girl
happy New Year I realized it was all up Merry Christmas that they'd found me I love you more than life itself your
special mummy and I knew that I'd have to face the consequences what I did 20 years before
[Music] [Music] 48 Hours dear Savannah reported by Maureen Maher continues in 90 seconds
[Music] she's written I've always loved the name Savannah it reminds me of great Beauty it also
reminds me of my home and someday it'll hopefully be yours too [Music] the endless reads the shrimp the blue
herons that pretty picture is how Lee Barnett remembered Charleston in the secret diary she kept for her daughter
during their years on the Run a very different Charleston South Carolina than what she returned home to
Barnett was arrested in Australia Lee was charged with kidnapping her daughter after losing a bitter custody battle
years Lee Barnett had been hunted by the FBI vilified in the Press cold angry and
violent and labeled mentally ill now she tells her side of the story to 48 hours
and it is a very different story than you've heard before I need to tell the truth about what's happened something
needs to be changed from the start there was always something different about Lee Barnett
the little Barefoot girl with the blue blue eyes and a big smile says her oldest friend Susie Pogue when I first
met Lee when she was five and I was seven she had a big black snake around her neck and so I took one look at her
and I said oh that looks like an interesting family I want to be friends with her
Leonard two brothers were raised by a free-spirited single mother named Dottie after their father died they didn't have
much money Dottie lived on her husband's Social Security but they had plenty of Adventures says Lee's brother Cliff we
had to learn how to do things with no money and no resources and get by and do things on the fly a kind of Swiss Family
Robinson traveling between South Carolina Florida and the jungles of Belize they were really living in
Indiana Jones lifestyle before there was an Indiana Jones in beliefs they were in the jungle
living with local families inherited her mother's love of Adventure [Music] at one point traveling deep into Africa
with Susie I just knew that all of the traveling that we had done and that she had done with her family prepared her
for really what was the Ultimate Adventure of her life that Adventure began in Charleston when
Lee by then a flight attendant met Harris Todd a stockbroker with a love of poetry
and to many the picture of a perfect Southern gentleman and was it Love at First Sight no not at
all I wasn't love at first sight it was friendship all that changed five years later they just professed to
me that I'd made him feel different than anybody else has ever made him feel and
um the one thing led to another but Lee's dear friend Patty Roth did not think it was a good match they wanted
very different things out of life she was very outgoing and he kind of kept her to himself
to Lee that was part of the Attraction part of the challenge I thought I was a person that was going
to help him have a more normal fun loving life because he was so serious when Lee came to me and told me that
they decided to get married I did not agree with that choice we wanted children Harris was very clear to
everyone that he never wanted children why would you marry a man who didn't want to have kids I don't know I just
thought that I was going to do something and he would change and we'd have this wonderful family and I just had this
crazy dream that I'd make everything right she could not have been more wrong when she told him that she was pregnant
is when all the problems started between the two of them he kept saying over and
over throughout my whole pregnancy there is no baby even when I was eight months
pregnant there is no baby there is no baby I'll try and start from the beginning
before Lee Barnett fled the country she made a tape and sent it to friends and enemies alike I can't tell you how
painful this is in it she condemns her husband Harris Todd a very very evil evil man for casting her as the villain
in a Sinister drama she claims he fabricated out of Vengeance a characterization she stands by to this
day he wouldn't hurt me so badly he didn't care who took down and that includes a little baby
Lee says it All Began seven months into the marriage I I said to him I said I have a feeling I might be pregnant and
he said it's okay just have an abortion I was heartbroken heartbroken but I still
thought ah he'll come right anyway two days later I found out I was pregnant he was very cold and indifferent
and he remained that way Harris claimed the problem wasn't the pregnancy it was Lee's uncontrollable temper one argument
two and a half months later got so heated she flipped over the coffee table Lee woke up the next morning and Harris
was gone I just felt so abandoned and I couldn't figure out how somebody I'd loved and known for so long could be
this cruel Harris Todd who consistently has said he never asked Lee to get an abortion says he left because he
couldn't take her anger anymore that he even feared for his safety he repeatedly
asked Lee to move out of his house but she refused I thought if I left his house I would never ever come back she
really wanted the marriage to work she did everything within her power to get Harris
to come back including going to marriage counseling Lee's mother suggested a psychiatrist named Dr Oliver bjorksten
Lee says to her surprise Harris agreed to go I made the appointment for both of us
Lee says what happened in those appointments would change her life she walked in hoping to savor marriage
instead she walked out with a diagnosis on the bipolar Spectrum Dr bjorkston said Lee had something called
hyperthymic temperament a condition characterized by dwelling blaming and temper outbursts a condition he wanted
to treat with medication did you ever have any history of mental illness we've never had any mental illness Lee admits
she was emotional I cried quite a lot she was alone having a difficult pregnancy and just had a scare that her
baby might have Down syndrome I said I think I've got a good reason to be upset and he said give you something to make
you feel better Dr bjorkstone prescribed navane Lee talked to a doctor friend who
said it's an anti-psychotic drug and advised her not to take it and I took three tablets by then
then Lee discovered something else something that terrified her Harris Todd and her own mother had contacted Dr
bjorksten before she had ever even heard his name so you're saying that Harris went to
bjorkson First telling Bjergsen what he said was going on yeah and you were under the
impression that Harris had never met him never met him we both walked in and they
both introduced themselves and said it's nice to meet you Harris has said he was only trying to
get help for his wife but Lee believes Harris was setting her up spinning an elaborate tale of an unstable wife with
a violent temper even convincing her mother of it for what purpose to save his face for walking out on his
pregnant wife I mean the physical violence is one thing the mental instability is another 48 Hours has been
covering this story since 1999. Harris Todd denied our recent requests for an interview but back then he told us Lee
was a ticking Time Bomb they never know whether you're going to come through the
door and have a flower pot launched a danger not only to him but to herself came down the hallway and there she is
sitting there banging her head against the wall did you bash your head against the wall one night to the point that the
lights were flickering on and off I've never ever bashed my head against the wall Hera said he was so afraid of you
that he feared for his life yeah did you threaten him never once slap him I slapped him once hit him never
Lee admits she did get angry angry enough to throw Planters off the porch and push over that coffee table but she
says Harris was the threatening one making menacing phone calls throughout the entire pregnancy he would say to me
all the time you're sick look in the mirror see your face it's contorted you're insane you're insane and he just
kept saying you're sick you're crazy over and over again Patty says she was listening in when Lee got one of those
calls he totally changed and his Southern Charm turned into just sheer hatred towards Lee
when she was seven months pregnant Lee filed for divorce Harris countersued claiming that Lee was so abusive he was
suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder I've never seen her violent she's not a moody person we never had an
argument and we were together constantly he was by her side when she gave birth to Savannah
was born a beautiful beautiful baby girl just healthy as can be Lee was thrilled
beyond words she was amazing [Music] was two and a half months old her parents divorce would take another turn
Harris sued for custody now the bitter battle would get even uglier with plenty of mudslinging from both sides
Lisa's Harris wanted to take her baby to punish her Harris said he loved Savannah
with all his heart he said she was promiscuous she said he was gay she stalked him he lied the list went on and
on but in the end it came down to one not so simple question was it in Savannah's best interest to be with her
mother or her father Dr Oliver bjorksten was called as a witness for Harris Todd how
damaging was his testimony to your case damaging is probably not the right word he was life destroying Dr bjorksten who
also declined to be interviewed testified that the condition he diagnosedly with is associated with
violence they had seen people with Lee's degree of dwelling do things which are quite serious
I absolutely never saw any signs of mental illness these friends took the stand painting a
very different picture I saw distress from having somebody try and fight you and take your baby away
and so how hard is it to prove that you are not crazy it's impossible the more youth claim
you're not mentally ill the crazier you sound because people look at you as a mental ill person then
and Lee says there was plenty of evidence that she was not crazy two respected psychiatrists testified
that there was nothing wrong with her and that she certainly did not need antipsychotic drugs
but then another expert was brought in as a so-called tiebreaker to see if Lee really did have hyperthymic temperament
after evaluating Lee he said she did have the condition the experts said Harris was the more
predictable parent recommending that he should have custody the child advocate for Savannah also
agreed still Lee and her friends were hopeful we thought there is no way that a judge
is going to look at this and take this loving healthy happy vibrant baby away from her mother
now the decision was up to judge Robert Mallard and it was clear who he believed
he cited Harris as willing to share custody when Lee was not he said that while Lee was a flight attendant Harris
was a successful stockbroker so he believed Harris would be better able to provide a stable environment the judge
also noted what he called Lee's inability to control her impulses in court I think I got hyper I think I got
stressed I think I got scared I was very scared because I knew something was really really going wrong this is the
court order that Lisa's what was most damaging and untrue was the judge's finding that she had been violent toward
Harris and his conclusion that her condition might lead to homicide or suicide it left me so scared and so cold because
when you label somebody as that that means I'm such a danger to my child on February 18 1994 we didn't think it
could happen judge Mallard awarded full custody of nine and a half month old Savannah
to her father Harris Todd I promise and swear on my life that I will continue to take care of my daughter
[Music] the little girl was her life and everything I witnessed she was a fabulous mother she really really was it
was hard to believe that it could even happen his friends were still reeling from the
judge's decision the decision in my view was totally unjust Gordon King it was beyond my comprehension to know that
they they were going to remove the child from her Harris came to get Savannah the
very same day he was awarded custody when they came and took her is when I lost it and I just went to the
bathroom and and sat in the bathtub and cried Lisa's would worried her the most was
something Harris had said in court that he would take his daughter to a psychiatrist as young as three years old
if he saw any signs of her mother's illness it sounds like what you're saying Liz
you were afraid Harris Todd was going to do to this baby girl what he had done to
you yeah I knew as a grown woman if I couldn't prove that I wasn't mentally ill how can
a two or three year old Lisa is her only option was an appeal but the judge didn't file the necessary
paperwork in the usual 30 Days by day 45 she was desperate at this point had you
lost all faith in the judicial system in the court system and the family court system all Faith all faith
I knew nobody was there to help me I had started to make my plan to leave Social Security she saw a 60 Minutes
piece on a street in Los Angeles where you can easily get fake documents on Social Security okay and off she went
the guy goes what do you want and I said I need two birth certificates here are two names
and he said be back here at one o'clock tomorrow by the next afternoon Lee Barnett had been reborn as Alexandria
Maria Canton and Savannah was now her son Nick a boy boy she had no hair yet so I thought it says a boy
next stop Houston Texas she put on a black wig walked into the DMV and got a Texas driver's license after that the
passports were easy it was something that was just propelling me for it knowing that I had to get her safe
I can't tell you how painful this is banana and I Belong Together and nobody besides God has a right
to destroy that [Music] 64 days after losing custody and during one of her regularly scheduled
visitations Lee says she takes her last ten thousand dollars and the baby the two then get into a rental car here in
Charleston with her oldest brother stop at a gas station she cuts her hair dyes it brown and drives to the Atlanta
airport and then she disappears what time on Sunday were you supposed to return Savannah it was six o'clock at
night and where were you at six o'clock that night oh I would probably be in France by then in Paris and did that
make you nervous or did you get a little smile oh I don't think I ever smiled I never wanted to take it for granted
every second I had a freedom was never taken for granted but did you feel free I mean you were on the Run were you free
I was free from them she was free from them soon after Lee's younger brother Cliff
Barnett got a call from Harris he goes where's your sister I have no idea and he goes your sister's
not a fit mother she can't take care of a child by herself she doesn't have the sense for it and I finally just
eventually said well apparently she has the sense to disappear from you I'm John
Walls one-year-old Savannah Lee Barnett is missing from ILO Palm South Carolina the FBI launched a massive Manhunt I
believe Lee Barnett could possibly harm her child initially agent Chris quick thought
they'd find her in some Motel within a week most fugitives mess up make mistakes because they can't leave a life
that they came from this didn't occur in this case she's totally cut all ties from everyone I had
no idea where she went who she was with what she was doing Lee and Savannah ceased to exist
from then on it was Alex and the baby she renamed Samantha how do you leave your family your
friends your country never pick up the phone never be in touch just walk away from it
it broke my heart it killed me we thought about her all the time she was never never far from our thoughts we
always tried to keep pictures of Savannah around the house and this was one of our favorites in my mind I knew
she was fine so I'm talking about somebody that can adapt and survive Alex's first stop Malaysia she wrote to
Sam in her diary that the hardest part was the loneliness I wrote I hope one day that
I meet a man that loves you like I love you and that's all I ever asked seven months later she did in South Africa her
next stop on the run there she met an engineering geologist named Juwan geldenhuis she told him everything
they married a few months later I got married to him because he was madly in love with my daughter soon
Samantha had a baby brother named Reese and the family moved to Botswana we had giraffes walking outside our
house and on the streets and buffalo and all that sort of stuff around the river
it's just really um it was fun all the time while Alex gildenheis growing her fam
family in Charleston Harris Todd was grieving the daughter taken from him by Lee Barnett it was done to hurt me it
was not done to save Savannah it was done to hurt me he says he had wanted a family and he wanted his daughter I
can't believe it how could something like this possibly happen how could it possibly happen
how could she be here and then be gone hear more from Lee Barnett's Charleston friends on Facebook at 48 hours
[Music] what bothers me the most is the not knowing and the fact that this is like
constantly grieving for someone who's died five years after Lee Barnett vanished
with his daughter Harris Todd decided to take matters into his own hands nothing
else has worked I'm gonna go look for him myself 48 Hours followed him to Costa Rica
I don't have any specific knowledge of her whereabouts but there's a high probability that she could be here
I've been to the stores blondes stand out in Costa Rica then to the farmers markets
you want to go up and look at a school I think it's worthwhile going up there to
have a look if I spend the rest of my life doing this so be it that would put the child in a great deal
of danger Harris also went on national TV shows determined to keep his daughter in the news as well as her mother who
according to him was a very ill a bipolar affective disorder also known as manic depressive illness very violent
she would hit me in the side of the head with her fist and in this Recreation a very dangerous woman
I've got the pleatings ready for filing in your Torrid action Harris and his lawyer Graham Sturgis also went after
Lee's family and friends we'll be ready to get the paper served starting tomorrow on the various Defenders
filing suit against those Harris believed had helped her how are you doing today including Lee's mother
her brother cliff and Susie Pogue bye-bye thank you he accused me of conspiracy to kidnap
Samantha of course none of that was ever proven but it was financially devastating for
me but she says the worst part was the private investigators who tracked her every move
they threatened me by saying that they were going to destroy my life my family they were going to take me down
all the while Lee and Samantha stayed under the radar traveling from the U.S to Germany France
Malaysia South Africa Botswana and New Zealand after 13 years on the run and four
continents Lee finally landed here along the shores of Australia's Sunshine Coast
a safe harbor about is far away from Charleston as she could get the Sunshine Coast is known for its beaches be ready
and it's a very wonderful and family-like environment to grow up in but Sam's own family was having a tough
time the man she adored and believed was her father had fallen in love with another woman ending her parents
marriage how did it impact your mother she's strong she stayed Brazilian and she was a great single mother
the doors were always open everyone was always welcome there was one door that remained closed
the door to her mother's past when she talked about America she loved it but at the end of the day you can see
in her eyes and if you know and you love someone well enough you can see when they're hurting and it's not for me to
sit there and go well get sadder and tell me more and tell me why and I deserve to know because I didn't you
know I trusted that when she wanted to tell me she'd let me know that day finally came Samantha how old
are you I'm here four four eight nineteen years after they boarded that plane into the unknown
I was on the telephone at 7 30 in the morning there was a big pounding on my door and I was still in my pajamas and I
opened the door and this man was staying there with guns and he said I'm here with a warrant for your rest
Alex gildenheis had finally made a mistake she confided in the wrong friend that
friend contacted Harris Todd with the one missing piece of the puzzle says assistant U.S attorney Nathan Williams
her name all we really needed was a way to identify Miss Barnett under her Alias
and once we had that information it was very easy for us to then find the paper trail
but it took two years to work a deal between the two countries a deal that eventually LED federal
agents to this little house in malulaba one of the agents said to me you must be
really relieved but I wasn't relieved I knew that my life would change my children's lives would change
it could not have been a worse time one week earlier their dad had died from bone cancer
I'm very lucky to be able to say the last thing I said was I love you because people don't get that
now she and Rhys faced losing their mother to prison my mom was sitting on the couch
with two FBI agents next to her I said Mom what's going on and she took me to another room and just told me everything
that happened told me I could have trust her and of course I did next she called Sam
away at University studying to be a nurse I said Sammy you know how we never had
communication with the family and friends in the U.S he said yeah I said well I was married before and I'm going
to jail now because I I'm an accused of kidnapping I said I had to keep you safe
all those years ago back and say wait does that mean that my dad and she started crying and I
started crying Alex geldenheiss AKA Lee Barnett was taken to a jail in Brisbane the next day
FBI agents sat Samantha down and began to tell her the story of the beginning of her life and that's when I learned
where I was born I learned Savannah I didn't you know I didn't know anything before that
she learned about Harris Todd and her mother's bitter backstory every characteristic they said that my mother
had was wrong and incorrect every single thing I mean they don't like what what kind of things like she she had bipolar
I mean that was the most incredibly confronting thing and I felt very rude because I just laughed in their faces
that was the first time you ever heard that accusation yeah I just I had to laugh and I said whoa you're wrong
perhaps most disturbing agents told her they had feared her mother would hurt her did your mother ever hurt you
oh did she ever hit you was she abusive to you no a friend in malulaba Bruce Michelle was
equally perplexed by the version of his friend he read about in the court order and I thought wow this is not this is
not the person we knew relating to the case it's like a novel that is so sickening that you can't put
down it's been a terrible terrible Injustice and somebody should go to jail and he says it shouldn't be Lee
[Music] hear more from Lee's children about their globetrotting life at 48hours.com
the time at Kong for a lead to tell Samantha about the diary she'd kept hidden all these years
Sam opened the book of secrets and began to read I'm having difficulty writing because
I'm very scared I can only wait though and pray it's not our time to be found with each
page a new understanding of her mother if you think about every single little thing that she has gone through I've
lived this wonderful life and she did everything she could and more to just keep me safe now it was
Sam's turn to protect her mother she is the most important thing and she was and she has been and she still is
run through Sam and Bruce collected affidavits from supporters across four continents
friend Carrie gazzard everybody's heart went out to her everybody was behind her
100 there was not a doubt at all anyway for 10 months Alex and her supporters desperately fought extradition but in
Fall of 2014 she was forced to leave her Australian Paradise behind and returned
to the place where it all began here in Charleston but this time she would be at
the federal courthouse charged with International parental kidnapping and two counts of passport fraud crimes that
could put Lee behind bars for 23 years Lee was denied bail while awaiting trial prosecutor Nathan Williams
it's not complicated you can't take the law into your own hands and and flee the
country with a child because you don't like the result from a divorce hearing Lee acknowledges she broke the law by
getting those fake passports but says she is not guilty of kidnapping you do not think that you broke the law by
taking her out of the country the law was broken when a corrupt court system took that baby from me and took her
mother away from her in your mind you did not kidnap her she's my daughter you did not have the legal right to take
her out of the country a legal right be damned but after five months in jail Lee
realized she didn't have the money or the Firepower to fight the U.S government she pled guilty to all three
charges including kidnapping Lee was sentenced to 21 months in prison with credit for time served for the man
who had searched for her it was a disappointing sentence what about Harris aside The Father's Side
she took the law in her own hands and denied the father of 20 years I've ever seen his daughter have you ever for one
moment thought maybe I should have let her know Harris Todd No No Remorse about cheating him out of
20 years with his daughter none Lee says time has proven she was not who Harris said she was
there's nothing wrong with me I've never done anything violent I've raised two amazingly healthy intelligent children
who are happy so who's telling the truth and who's lying Sam had some questions of her own she
wrote an eight-page letter to Harris just telling him that I can have the most amazing relationship with him as
long as I am 100 sure there's no Revenge there's no spite there's no nothing Sam says all she wanted was the truth
why Harris said her mother was violent there was no response to that instead Harris wrote that he was pleased to hear
she had done well on her exams has there ever been any response a year would pass Sam was finally ready
to meet Harris her relationship was meeting Harris had imagined when we spoke with him back in
1999. I tell her who I am and hug her it didn't quite turn out like that they met
at Harris's home he held at his hand to shake my hand and I thought well I'm not
quite comfortable with that I'd rather give a hug and it was just a surreal experience almost Sam says
Harris took her on a two and a half hour tour of his house showing off his prized
possessions Lee's friend retired judge Myron Johnson accompanied Sam I really was
very shocked that the conversation was not about he and Samantha and the years that they
have missed and how they could go from here I think we're both a little awkward they have not seen each other since but
Sam says she remains open to a relationship as long as Harris understands one thing there is no way
I'm letting go of my mom I've been very lenient with him and all the stuff that he said I want to know if he'll be the
same with me when this comes out in May 2015 Lee Barnett was released from jail on two years probation
back into the lives of family and friends she had left all those years ago and then this is where we did that's an
amazing experience to have your best friend disappear for 20 years and come back she is just overwhelmed with
friendship all of our childhood memories are all coming back I'm gonna take them over
that table we'll start line she's not going to go anywhere as far as I'm concerned at this point Lee wasn't
allowed to leave the United States so with the help of 48 Hours a lot of heat here her kids came to her
Reese was a total surprise [Laughter] the first time I got to Helga after she got out of prison she never let go of me
she was I think she cried and Sam hadn't seen her mother in nine months my mother and I have this incredible
thing to know that we love each other and and the continent you know or an ocean isn't going to separate us
over two decades ago Lee Barnett married Harris Todd hoping to have a happy life
together instead it became a marriage measured in loss a father lost 20 years with his
daughter a mother lost her home her friends and her family a story of hurt anger and despair
but also a story of love dear Savannah I just want to let you know how loved you
are you and I will be fine more than fine really will be great and we'll get through this please always
know that having you is the most important thing in my entire life you'll always be my little girl we've made it
sweet dreams love mommy Samantha works as a nurse now she plans to get married this Summer
Reese will graduate from Auburn University in Alabama in May Lee has written a memoir which will be
published this spring in Australia what happened my next bleeding I tried to commit suicide she just about cut off
her head it was unbelievable there was no way that she could have done that to herself
you are watching news channel 3 Daybreak she reported the news the time is six o'clock 64 degrees
when she vanished she was the news it appeared that Jody had been attacked from behind and then dragged away from
her car police questioned friends Jody spent more time with John Van sice and he said I was the last person to see her
looked for obsessed viewers did she ever express concern that she was being stalked yes yeah it could be somebody we
least expect 23 years and counting somebody knows something is it you a Cold Case heats up
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Brief Summary

Lee Barnett kidnapped her daughter Savannah after losing custody, evading authorities for years before her arrest in Australia.

Key points

The Disappearance of Lee Barnett. Lee Barnett's life takes a dramatic turn when her friend goes missing, leading to an international manhunt.
A Mother's Love. Lee Barnett reflects on her deep love for her daughter Savannah amidst turmoil.
The Courtroom Battle. A bitter custody battle ensues between Lee and Harris, filled with accusations and emotional turmoil.
The Escape Plan. Desperate to protect her daughter, Lee devises a plan to escape and start anew.
A New Identity. Lee Barnett transforms her identity to evade capture and protect her daughter.
A Father's Determination. Harris Todd decides to take matters into his own hands to find his daughter.

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Episode quotes

I love you more than life itself your special mummy.

A poignant message from a mother to her daughter.

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