I didn't really intend to use my blog for this purpose, but every once in a while you come upon a story that just makes you want to cry -- and then go hug your children.

Here is the lead as written by Associated Press reporter James Prichard:

CALEDONIA, Mich. -- A couple sat by their daughter's hospital bedside for weeks after an auto accident until she came out of a coma and they realized she was not their daughter after all, but another blond-haired young woman injured in the wreck. Their own daughter, it turned out, was dead and buried.

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