Hi everyone.  I have changed the name on Michaela's myspace, and I wanted to let you know why.  As I go through myspace, friends and friend requests, bulletins and other things, there are so many for missing children.  Many of these myspace sites are run by very wonderful people who just adopt the cause of the missing.  Relatively few are run by anybody who ever even knew the child, much less family members. 
This myspace is dedicated to my daughter, who has been missing for a little over twenty years.  After all this time, my purpose in it has really changed.  It is less to try to solve the crime, and more to keep Michaela's memory alive. 
More to the point, my purpose is less to receive, and more to give.  I appreciate all the love and prayers and concern that have been poured out to me over the last twenty years.  But in all that time, probably much through all those prayers, I have come to the point of some healing, some understanding, perhaps some wisdom.  I am well schooled in the art of grief, you could say, and hard schooled in the art of faith.
So thank you all for your various offers of help, but I am here really to reach out to others who are facing grief and suffering (and that comes in many forms other than missing children, and no loss or grief is any less than any other).   That's where my heart is.  And it is also probably the greatest honor I can do my daughter's memory.
So if you want to talk, message me, or e-mail me at missingmichaela@gmail.com
Thanks and God bless,
Sharon Murch
Michaela's mom