Pray for Adoptee Sisters (teens).Mom died in bridge collapse
Earlier Thursday, a man whose wife is now one of the four confirmed fatalities and his two daughters had been painfully optimistic that their wife and mother was alive. Ronald Engebretsen, 57, was searching for his wife, Sherry. His daughter last heard from her when she left work in downtown Minneapolis Wednesday. Her cell phone has picked up with voice mail ever since.
"We are left with the hope that there is a Jane Doe in a hospital somewhere that's her," Engebretsen said.
Daughter Jessica said, ""I haven't eaten, I haven't slept, it's just, you can't even explain the feeling."
""It's just kinda surreal, but we gotta stick together and be a family," said Sherry's other daughter, Anne. "That's what she'd want us to do.
"My mom's a fighter. She'll make it," Anne said. "She's a strong woman. She's gonna come back home. She's gonna be home."
Both daughters were adopted from Colombia when they were babies. "I think we are two of the luckiest girls in the nation right now because our parents are wonderful people," Anne said.
"Just please pray, that's all we can ask for," said Jessica. "Just hoping, just be positive and everything will be OK."
Ron said that Sherry took an atypical route home. She usually avoided 35W because of the construction. "And that decision was hers, a decision we all support," he said. "I traveled that bridge for 35 years going into Minneapolis. You have certain feelings about that bridge."
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Jody Moreen, Editor, Adoption Blessings Journal
www.adoptionblessingsjournal.com
Compiler of 2005 book, "Letters and Reflections to My Adopted Daughters" by "Amazing Grace English hymn writer and pastor John Newton
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