‘No one’s mad. Just call, or come home’<\/span><\/p>\nLori Dee had struggled with drug addiction for a while, but had always bounced back in the past, her mother said.<\/p>\n
“She would be gone for days at a time, leaving the kids with a sitter,” Marilyn said, adding she asked for custody.<\/p>\n
At Christmas in 2015, Marilyn said, Lori Dee looked homeless and said she had been living in her car.<\/p>\n
“I could see she was trying, but she just slid back into” using drugs, Marilyn said.<\/p>\n
By March, Lori Dee was “acting paranoid,” her mother said. “She thought somebody wanted to kill her.”<\/p>\n
Lori Dee has undergone an annual surgery for her throat after she accidentally swallowed lye as a child, and needed to be clean for that, explained her sister, Gwen Larson. She was committed for a short period of time for mandated psychiatric help and treatment for heroin abuse. Then, once Lori Dee got through detox, she agreed to go into a 30-day treatment program in Juneau, which the family encouraged because it was a place where no one knew her, Larson said.<\/p>\n
“I think she was only there for a day,” she said. “I talked to her that morning.”<\/p>\n
Lori Dee wanted her sister to visit, Larson said, adding, “That was the last conversation I had with her.”<\/p>\n
Larson thinks Lori Dee went out the window later that same day, even though she was there of her own volition.<\/p>\n
She remains puzzled, and frustrated, by her sister’s disappearance.<\/p>\n
“I think she’s (still) out there,” Larson said. “I think she’s just stuck in the drug world.”<\/p>\n
Before this, Larson said, the longest she had gone without talking to her sister was two weeks.<\/p>\n
“I’m her only sibling,” she said. “If something was wrong, she would come to me. The last time she left treatment, she showed up on my door.”<\/p>\n
There have been tips and photos and even video, but none of those women were Lori Dee, Larson said. The family has gotten calls placing Lori Dee in Sitka, in Palmer, in Wasilla, in Anchorage.<\/p>\n
“Figuring out what’s what is the hardest part,” she said.<\/p>\n
Larson says she has a gut feeling that something is wrong with Lori Dee, something that is preventing her from making contact.<\/p>\n
“We love her and miss her, we really want her to come home,” Larson said. “No one’s mad. Just call, or come home.”<\/p>\n
“If she’s OK, we’ll drop it,” she continued. “We just want to know. Her oldest son asked me, ‘Is Mom still alive?’ All we can tell the kids is she’s just mixed up.”<\/p>\n
Marilyn Wilson wrote her own letter to her child, hoping against hope that somehow, Lori Dee will see it on this important day.<\/p>\n
“To my sweet daughter, Happy Mother’s Day — wherever you are,” she wrote. “I want you to know you are loved and missed by your family.”<\/p>\n
In the letter, Marilyn offers up news of Lori Dee’s three boys and events in the family.<\/p>\n
“I read (the) letter you wrote last year to the boys, whenever they are sad and missing you — it’s a beautiful letter,” she added. “We pray for you every day, at every meal.”<\/p>\n
\n• Liz Kellar can be reached at 523-2246 or liz.kellar@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n
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