"The kid who doesn't exist" (UPDATE: He now exists, reunites with birth mom)

Read it and weep. Literally. It's a story (part of a long series looking at a struggling inner-city Indianapolis high school) about a kid who was basically dumped by his drug-addled mother, and has a dim future simply because he doesn't have the paperwork to prove that he's real. But then...

http://www.indystar.com/article/20100427/NEWS08/4250378/Kid-who-doesn-t-exist-looks-to-future

 

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Awesome story. Thanks for sharing.

 

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Can't be hatin' on Indy no more. Good work my brothas.

We had one of my kinfolk not exist for a while, but that was for a different reason, ya dig?

 

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Damn that was good.

 

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Wow. Amazing a reporter could turn up what so many couldn't. Didn't see the story going that way. Thanks for sharing.

 

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That story just made my day. Thanks for sharing it!

 

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I just started tearing up at work reading that. Loved the story, awesome kid, great job by the reporter. Even though his research turned the story in a new direction, he didn't take that element and trample all over the column with it. He just let a great story unfold and got out of the way. And a great story it is indeed.

 

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Great story - kudos to the research librarian at the paper who was able to turn up the aliases that led to the connection and kudos to the reporter for just letting the story unfold. However there are two questions the story left unanswered - has he gotten in touch with his sister/how did it go if he did? and has he tried contacting his birth father?

 

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Great story. I was hoping it would have a happy ending.

 

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Amazing the journalism that is capable of being produced when media organizations let reporters have time to find and report good stories.

 

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Agreed...great stuff...

 

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How about the end of the story that doesnt exist?

For two days now I have tried to read the sixth and final page of the damn story. But I can't. It keeps defaulting me back to page 2. I have tried to do a single page view, nothing.

This damn page jump system Gannett implemented is awful. If a former Web Editor at a Gannett shop (me) can't get the thing to work, how are other readers supposed to?

Anyway, would someone mind posting the last page so I could read it?