If you are from Alabama, or really from any part of the US now, you will know the name of Natalee Holloway. However, to us from the state of Alabama she has a special place in our hearts, because she is one of our girls. One of our girls who never got to return home. Natalee Holloway was from a Mountain Brook family, on the surface, she was the all-american teen. Involved in her church and in extracurricular activities in her high school. All she wanted was to go on this senior trip to Aruba and then come home and start her life in the fall as a college freshman.
Unfortunately, that was cut short, on her last night in Aruba something went terribly wrong. She hung out with Joran Van Der Sloot and his friends, the Kalpoe brothers, and according to Van Der Sloot something ended up happening to her. However he’s told so many stories that we’re not quite sure what that was. We do know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that he killed a girl named Stephanie Flores in a hotel room and we just assumed that the same fate befell Natalee, but did it?
Natalee Holloway: Home at last?
Fast forward to today, Alabama twitter is abuzz with news that Natalee Holloway may have been found alive in Hondouras by a military operation, and she may have been rescued. However don’t get your hopes up yet because the reports I have seen do not confirm or deny this woman’s identity it just says that she was the victim of a violent crime in Hondouras and from the way the reports sound, it sounds like she was being held hostage. Now, a part of me, being an Alabama girl myself, wants to leap for joy and praise God that if this is Natalee Holloway, if this is indeed our girl, that she can go home to her Mama and this family’s nightmare can finally end. However the realistic part of me is very skeptical, I wonder if this is the real Natalee Holloway or just a lookalike, or perhaps a completely unscrupulous person who has claimed her identity just to get out of a bad situation. (I would hope no one would be that insensitive, I hate even putting that possibility out into the universe.)
Along with that speculation, one wonders why no one found her until just now. They say it was a sex trafficking ring that was holding this woman which brings to mind all sorts of awful, gruesome possibilities. If this is indeed her, then she is going to need so much healing after what she has endured and we can only hope that she can find some peace after what was done to her. But the question remains what on earth actually happened?
Even if this girl is not Natalee, she still needs our love and support, and probably a great deal of time in order to be able to make sense of and tell her story. Whoever she is, she needs a hug from her Mama and to be allowed to go home to her home and her family and do just as she pleases for as long as she pleases, until she’s ready to come out and face us and tell us what happened. That is, if she’s ever ready. If she’s not, we will welcome her home from a distance, but we will be glad that whomever she is, she’s home.
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