SumedhaCorporal Bert Paquet
Paquet was the spokesperson of RCMP. He told, “We received a phone call from a woman in the Yukon. She called and claimed that she had seen the picture of the missing person in the free newspapers, and said the missing person we were looking for was actually her mother.”
Unexpected
Linda was not prepared for what she heard. “I was looking forward to it but, I dunno, it was just strange, knowing all this stuff. I thought she was dead all these years, and then, she’s alive. And I thought: What was going through her head as well?” Linda said.
The Truth
Lucy had left Marvin and her children abruptly in 1961, but she was not dead. Lucy had remarried in British Colombia and the family then moved to Yukon in 1980. Lucy had four children with her new husband. Rhonda was one of them.
Call
Rhonda gave Linda Lucy’s number and asked her to contact her and talk to her. It took Linda a lot of courage to call and hear her mother’s voice after 52 years. “I am not angry with her… I cried when we spoke for the first time,” said Linda. “I called her ‘Mom.’ I almost didn’t know what to say.”
Half-Sister
Rhonda was more than happy to discover that she had a half-sister and she welcomed Linda to her family with a very warm heart. “I didn’t know … that my mother was a missing person,” she revealed. “[I] always wanted an older sister. I am just happy Linda knows her mother is alive now. I feel so badly for her, for what she missed.”
First Talk
When Linda called Lucy, she knew that she had to ask the one question, for which she had waited all through her life. Why did Lucy even leave? What had prompted her to leave her own children and never even try to look back?