Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after 22 months of false leads and dashed hopes, it was as simple and dramatic as this: Bipin Shah, 59, got a call from one of his private eyes in Europe. Sarah Lynn, 9, and Genevieve ("Vivi") Marie, 7, had been found living in Lucerne, Switzerland, with their mother, Ellen Dever, 43, under assumed names...
...flew to Milan, met with his team of sleuths and mapped out a bold maneuver. And then on Saturday, April 10, in a wrenching scene on a Lucerne street, the girls were plucked like flowers from their mother's side. Their secret lives ended as abruptly as they had begun--whisked away by car as their mother screamed for them...
...next day, Shah took his daughters home and put them under the care of psychologists. The girls were "very angry. It took a little while, but they calmed down," Shah says. "They have mixed feelings because their mother is not here...
Although Dever had not returned to her Lucerne apartment for fear of arrest on U.S. child-concealment charges, Shah said, he has been in touch with her by phone and has put the girls on to talk with their mother. He said he has told Dever that "we'll work it out. We are going to put our egos aside and do what's right for the girls...
...with his daughters, who can now speak German and Italian. And lawyers on all sides searched for a resolution that might restore some normalcy to their lives. Shah said he doesn't want Dever jailed or kept away from the girls. "I would never deprive my children of their mother. No one has that right...