Colleen Fitzpatrick

As soon as I hung up the phone with him, I Googled it. I Googled lavender dough, and as soon as it came up, I knew. And I called him back, and I told him, that's Dana. It's Dana.

Surreal. It felt like somebody just punched me in the stomach. Yeah. I was angry that she was by herself, you know. Her worst fear came true. She was forgotten.

She was passed around between my dad and his current wife or current girlfriend at the time, and that's how we lost track between her and us for about 10 years.

Very, very happy. She said she liked the normal life, feeling normal, not having to worry, you know, being loved is what she said.

That's when the problem started.

Oh, yeah.

She was just looking for acceptance.

She wasn't trash. She wasn't a piece of trash like he took upon himself to discard of. And I want everybody, you know, to know who Dana was and who she was as a person. Even with her difficult life and her upbringing, she still had a good heart.

We felt like that was her adopted family.

It is. Exactly. You never think about it, but it is something. It's important to have that. Because you're never forgotten, you know, that your name is there. It's written in stone.

Some of the people still go by her gravesite and still put flowers and things like that there. And that's what we wanted, because she's part of Longview.

No. She's home.

We thought, this is the family. This is it. Surreal. It felt like somebody just punched me in the stomach. They know the truth. I want everybody to know who she was as a person. She had a good heart.