Friday, March 14, 2003 | 4:58 a.m.
I was driving home Wednesday afternoon listening to the radio when news buzzed in that Elizabeth Smart had been found -- and found alive -- after 9 months. That's a significantly long amount of time in which even the most optimistic folk would concede that this child would be dead.
I don't have kids or the desire to be a mother or to know what it feels like, but tears and emotion poured out of my body from out of nowhere to think of this miracle and what joy and emotion her family must have felt upon hearing the news and finally getting to hold her in their arms. Such a great day for the world for such miracles to happen.
I am someone who reads the paper and watches the news daily, but hopefully in her recovery we will remember she is still a young woman who has been traumatized. I am worried that with the media circus and trial that her "well-wishers" will not allow her to heal and she may wish she was still covered with the veil that covered her torment this long. I am glad she is home.
CASSANDRA PETERSON
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