A Lost 5-yr-old Finds Family 25 Years Later

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A Lost 5-yr-old Finds Family 25 Years Later

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

- C.S. Lewis -

A Lost 5-yr-old Finds Family 25 Years Later

One day in 1987, 5-year-old Saroo Brierley spent the afternoon begging for change with his brother at a local train station. When it was time to go home, the boys boarded what they thought was the correct train. They were wrong. Exhausted, the young brothers fell asleep, only to wake up 10 hours later on the other side of India, hundreds of miles away from their family. 25 years later, using little more than a vague recollection of his childhood and some help from Google Earth's mapping technology, Saroo began his miraculous journey home. { read more }

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