21.   He ran in the Atlanta Games, earned a berth in the semifinals but came away empty in his hope of finding his mother.

22.   He returned after hearing about the devastating storm, but could not find his mother.

23.   He found his mother outside, sitting on the front porch.

24.   He found his mother, Allegra, and squeezed her tight.

25.   Her mother was found in the same bed, shot once in the head, her face covered with a bedsheet.

26.   I did not expect to find my mother in the best of spirits.

27.   If she had not found her real mother, she would have died.

28.   Immigration officials have failed to find her mother, and her father had told caseworkers in Florida that he did not want her sent back.

29.   In January, her mother was found stabbed to death near Glendale Municipal Airport, the first homicide of the new year in the Phoenix area.

30.   In March, after years of sporadic searching and with help from adoption records, Mrs. Williams, who lives in Minneapolis, found her mother.