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When i looked at the email, i just couldnt even believe it. But after so many tears, so many years, and so many turns in her story i was like whoa. There are still more stunning twists to be revealed. Its amazing. Its the best gift ever. Lost and found. Hello. Welcome to dateline extra. A young girl was abducted at the age of four and raised by her kidnapper. For the next four decades she searched for her family, her name, and herself. Her story has an extraordinary ending and as it turns out, t...

14. thats when he found his birth certificate. started calling himself ray smith and began puzzling after the unanswerable questions of his life. why did ann name me jim brown if my name was really ray? how commie never knew about jerry? things like that, i wondered. was i kidnapped? >> no answers from anna brown who died soon after that. as for life in colorado, by the time he was 16 -- >> things were getting a little rough, maybe because of my past i wasnt an easy kid. so i was put into foster...

Where did they go? the little girl had no idea. but she did know that from now on, she had a new name. they called her pepper. pepper smith. she was not yet 5 years old. >> we lived in cars and motels and going from state to state staying at salvation armies to get a meal here and there. just -- >> whats it like to live in a car? >> its horrible. its embarrassing. >> she was confused, of course, and terribly frightened at first. she begged, take me home. shirley ignored her. she imagined running...

We did everything together. >> renee was feeling abandoned. >> i was telling her, dont go. stay here. i need you. youre my sister. so she went. she did her thing. and i was upset and sad. >> by 1986 and on her own now, pepper had all but given up hope that shed ever find her real parents. now she began to encounter a more immediate problem. the inevitable trouble that comes with having no real name, no birth certificate, no i.d. though she was enrolled in school under the name rhonda smith at sh...

Where was he now? geri gave us a copy of his birth certificate. he would be about 40 now. and our chances of finding him seemed, frankly, slim. we called 40-year-old ray smiths all over the country. there was ray smith in colorado, ray smith in maryland, in new jersey, in kansas. but did he go by the name ray smith? and then a call back. it was the ray smith from colorado. he had the right name, the right age, place of birth, had had grown up without knowing any blood relatives. all this ray smi...

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Puzzling over the apparently unanswerable questions of his life. >> why did ann name me jim brown if my name was really ray? how come i never knew about jerry, things like that. and then i wondered, you know, was i kidnapped? >> no answers from anna brown, who died soon after that. and as for life in colorado, by the time he was 16 -- >> things were getting a little rough. maybe because of my past i wasnt a real easy kid. so i was put into foster care. >> and then he graduated from high school. ...

Him the story of his sisters. in a way his story too. >> i thought that the story itself was sad. it sounded like they had a rough life. and it was really similar to mine. >> so it was. and it began the sam way, too, when sheryly took him from jehri. except ray was turned over to a woman named anna lee brown, who named him jimmy brown. the only name he knew growing up. >> she had told me that she had adopted me. but i was also shipped around a lot from home to home because she had a lot of healt...

>> when i looked at the e-mail, i just couldnt even believe it. >> but after so many tears, so many years, and so many turns in her story -- >> i was like whoa. >> there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. >> its amazing. its the best gift ever. >> lost and found. >> hello. welcome to dateline extra. a young girl was abducted at the age of four and raised by her kidnapper. for the next four decades she searched for her family, her name, and herself. her story has an extraordinary endi...

Was absent mostly. long stretches away, punk wa. >> we would go see him because he was coming in from the navy, and so it was an exciting moment, and she would get us all dressed up, and it was the anticipation of going to the shipyard and having a lot of attention. i think as a child. >> the memories are how she survived it all, all the trouble. >> holding my moms hand. having fun with my mom. being in the moment of joy. i dont have bad memories. >> yes, those. the bad memories. like the day ev...