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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Adopted to separate homes two decades ago, three reunited sisters have turned to the Internet in hopes of finding their younger sibling.
Ana Raquel was not quite 2 the night she arrived in Salt Lake City from El Salvador and was adopted by a Utah family.
Older sister Crystal Montes was adopted that night -- Sept. 27, 1985 -- by another Utah family. A video taken by Montes' adoptive family at the airport shows both girls.
Montes, who was 8 when adopted, has already been reunited with sisters Leticia Walter Morgan and Patty Oborn. Both Morgan and Oborn were also adopted to Utah families a few months apart.
The three women now hope the Internet will help them find Ana.
"Not one day has gone by when I haven't thought of her," said Montes, who said she often cared for her sister during their birth mother's frequent absences. "I was more or less their mother. I looked at Ana as my own child."
Montes, now 31, has posted the video clip on YouTube and at findinganaraquel.blogspot.com.
Montes says she hopes someone will recognize the dark-haired woman seen holding Ana in the video, or the blond-haired boy seen standing next to her.
"It's like there's a missing piece in our puzzle that's keeping our family from fitting together," Morgan said.
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Information from: Deseret News
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