Ten-year-old Connor Datri was visibly upset when he got home to his grandmother's house after soccer practice. "What's the matter?" Melissa Moriarty asked.
"Oh Mimi!" Connor burst into tears. "I lost Mommy!"
"What do you mean?" Melissa asked, baffled.
Connor held up a broken chain. "It broke when I fell down. We looked and looked but we couldn't find her!"
Connor and his brother, Alex, 13, lived with their grandmother. Their mom had died after a car crash, and the only thing the boys had left of her were matching lockets, tiny gold hearts holding her fingerprint and a pinch of her ashes. Connor rarely took his off.
"It's got to be there somewhere," Melissa said, and headed back to the Plymouth, Massachusetts, school field with Connor, Alex and her son, Kyle. They searched until long past dark, but they had no luck.
This story is from the March 04, 2024 edition of Woman's World.
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