Laura B.

Former Englewood & Fort Myers Florida resident. I am originally from MD.🦀 Mom to three great kids. I work in food services & travelled quite a bit.

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Source: https://t.co/IH8b07P4UM https://t.co/NY96nu9vT7

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@Sassafrass_84 Bacon.

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Source: The Independent https://t.co/xPTqJlw0CK

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@FoxNews As I understood their relationship it was an open marriage. He’s pretty awesome as an entertainer.

[Matt Devitt @MattDevittWX]

#BREAKING: Tropical Storm #Arthur is possible briefly in the Northwest Gulf before making landfall in Texas or Louisiana Wednesday into Thursday. This is the first cone of the 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season. A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for from Sargent (TX) to Morgan City (LA). I'll continue to keep you updated.

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@TMZ Say it isn’t so..🙄

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💔 Jelly Roll has filed for divorce from his wife, Bunnie XO

DETAILS: https://t.co/dbPJnERUlf

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A special kind of movie APARTMENT 7A with Julia Garner (Ozark) and one of my favs Dianne Wiest. #horror #drama #shocking #Paramount+ My cable is on in an apparent outage. #xfinity BOOYA!

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@EmilySm43 Sure, I have it on my laptop & tablet.

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@WorkElizab 90 - I don’t even have a passport. #iykyk

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@MattDevittWX True. I’m a Floridian and hope I don’t get a sunburn this summer but I do like the sun.

[Matt Devitt @MattDevittWX]

Accurate 🤣🤣 #Florida

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Sally Field says she ‘couldn’t understand’ a word said by classic movie co-star https://t.co/u9bkrH0jzV

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Twin girls from Georgia die after being pulled from vacation home pool 😢 😢 😢 https://t.co/pYADQZdBqk

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 11, 1962, three bank robbers sat through dinner at Alcatraz, the prison built to be inescapable, and by sunrise they had pulled off the greatest vanishing act in American history.

Frank Morris had an IQ of 133. The Anglin brothers, John and Clarence, grew up swimming the freezing waters of Lake Michigan. For over a year they dug through the concrete around their cell vents using sharpened spoons and a drill they built from a stolen vacuum cleaner motor, timing the noise to the prison's music hour so guards heard nothing.

The night of the escape, they tucked dummy heads into their beds. The heads were sculpted from soap, toilet paper and cement dust, painted with flesh tones from prison art kits, and topped with real human hair swept up from the barbershop floor. Guards walked past them all night and saw three sleeping men.

Meanwhile the trio slipped through their holes into a hidden utility corridor, climbed 30 feet of plumbing, and reached the roof through a ventilation shaft. They carried a raft made from more than 50 stolen raincoats, sealed with heat from steam pipes, inflated with a concertina one of them played in the prison band.

Then they paddled into the black, freezing water of San Francisco Bay. And disappeared.

The FBI searched for 17 years and closed the case in 1979, concluding they probably drowned. But no bodies were ever recovered. The Anglin family swears the brothers made it to South America, and in 2013 the FBI received a letter claiming to be from John Anglin: "Yes we all made it that night, but barely."

The cruelest twist belongs to Allen West, the fourth conspirator who helped plan everything. His vent would not open in time. He spent that night clawing at concrete while his friends vanished, and the rest of his life knowing he missed the boat by one hour.

The US Marshals case file remains open to this day. If alive, the brothers would be in their 90s, still wanted men.

What do you think happened to them?

[Matt Devitt @MattDevittWX]

The insurance company: "Wait, what hit your car?"

[Matt Devitt @MattDevittWX]

JUST IN: A magnitude 4.3 aftershock occurred this evening at 9:04 PM ET in the Southern Gulf...same area as the 6.1 earthquake roughly 36 hours ago.

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@JebraFaushay That can’t be a woman entirely. There’s a mustache.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

She was kidnapped first.

She suffered the longest.

And when another captive woman went into labor inside that house with no doctor, no hospital, and no help coming…

Michelle Knight delivered the baby herself.

With her bare hands.

But when the world learned about the horrors inside Ariel Castro’s house in Cleveland, her name was barely mentioned.

In August 2002, 21-year-old Michelle Knight was walking to a social services appointment when Castro offered her a ride.

Instead, he kidnapped her.

Locked her in a room.

Chained her up.

When she vanished, almost nobody looked for her.

Michelle came from poverty. She struggled with housing instability and a custody battle over her son.

Authorities quietly assumed she had simply “disappeared on her own.”

No major searches.

No national coverage.

No constant headlines.

Her case went cold almost immediately.

Then, in 2003, Castro kidnapped 16-year-old Amanda Berry.

The response was massive.

TV coverage.

FBI involvement.

Vigils.

Billboards.

The entire city knew Amanda’s name.

In 2004, he kidnapped 14-year-old Gina DeJesus.

Again, the community rallied around the search.

But inside the same house, Michelle had already been trapped for years.

She endured horrific abuse.

She became pregnant multiple times and lost every pregnancy due to Castro’s violence.

He repeatedly told her nobody was coming for her.

Then came Christmas Day, 2006.

Amanda Berry went into labor inside the house.

Castro threatened Michelle’s life if the baby died — then left.

Amanda was terrified.

Michelle had no medical equipment.

No training in childbirth.

But she stepped in anyway.

The baby girl wasn’t breathing when she was born.

Michelle performed CPR until the infant finally cried.

Inside one of the darkest places imaginable, a forgotten woman saved two lives.

In May 2013, Amanda escaped and called 911.

Police rescued all three women and Amanda’s six-year-old daughter.

The reunions flooded national television.

Amanda and Gina were embraced by the world.

Michelle walked out of the same house into a very different reality.

Even after surviving 11 years of captivity, she was often treated like an afterthought.

Later, she spoke openly about it.

Not with bitterness.

With honesty.

She wrote a memoir called Finding Me and explained the deeper pain of realizing the world had quietly decided she wasn’t important enough to search for.

Eventually, she legally changed her name to Lily Rose Lee.

A name she chose for herself.

A life reclaimed on her own terms.

Today, Lily Rose Lee advocates for missing people who are ignored because of poverty, addiction, unstable lives, or social status.

Her message is simple:

Every missing person deserves to be searched for.

Not just the ones society finds easier to care about.

Ariel Castro died in prison.

But Lily Rose Lee survived.

And the woman who once saved a baby in captivity now spends her life making sure nobody else is forgotten the way she was.

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@britttlifts I guess it is in my stuff so I just hit resume. We were robbed twice at another well known restaurant.