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Why did you come to Costa Rica? Why here as opposed to some other place? Well, I
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mean, Costa Rica is a known haven for people who have abducted their children. Why now? It's been almost 6 years in
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large part. It's because it's been 6 years. Uh it's the fact that nothing else has worked. I don't really know
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what else to do at this point. So the most logical conclusion I could come to was
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to simply go and look myself. Look places that I couldn't expect anyone else to go. At some point in time,
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someone actually did find the needle in the haystack. I couldn't necessarily pay
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anyone else to go and do what I'm going to do, which is look for my ex-wife and daughter. Um the it's going to be it
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would be very difficult for someone uh even the perfect person to recognize Lee if she has changed her her appearance
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drastically. Uh I I will recognize her voice. I will recognize her walk. I don't expect to recognize my daughter of
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course but that's I I'll I'll recognize her by association with Lee. Been here for two roughly two weeks about two
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weeks. You're leaving in a couple days. As you lift off in that plane, if you haven't seen anything more than you've
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seen today. Mhm. Is this going to be a failure? Feel like one? The fact that I didn't find anything
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um in a sense is just as positive as if I did. I mean, I've only scratched the surface here. Haven't looked everywhere.
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There's an element of luck to it, a very large element of luck. And there's no way to accelerate that. If you're a
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surfer and you're sitting on your board in the sand, you're never going to catch
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any waves. Doesn't mean that a wave is going to come if you're in the water, but it does mean if a wave does come and
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you are in the water with the board pointed in the right direction that you have a chance of catching it. I want to
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be in the water. It's the best thing that I can think to do at this point. If you were to find her, she's not going to
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know who you are probably. Oh, without question. She may not speak English be impossible. I'm not
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going to have any trouble getting to know my daughter and she's not going to have any trouble getting to know me. If
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it takes months, it takes months. It won't. You could spend a lifetime looking in these places and never see
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her. What else am I going to do? You know, I'm going to spend a lifetime doing something. I mean, I have a a very
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nice life. The family I have is a good family. Uh and I'm very grateful for that. I like where I live. I like where
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I work. I'm very happy with the circumstances. I'm unhappy with not having my daughter. That is the
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overriding aspect to all of this. If someone were to say, "I'll wave this wine and give you everything you want
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except your daughter." It will be the same. I'm not going to feel any better than I do