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    Photos of the missing remembered at Tuesday's "Remembrance Ceremony: A Gathering of Hope" for people who have disappeared, held at Frazier Park and hosted by The Kristen Foundation for Missing Adults. Photos are of l-r Jamie Michelle Fraley, a 22-year-old from Gaston County missing since April 2008, Natalee Holloway, a teenager who disappeared in Aruba in May, 2005, while on a graduation trip, Kristen Modafferi, a Park Scholar at N.C. State from Charlotte who disappeared a decade ago while working and studying in San Francisco, Carla Vicentini, a 26-year-old missing from New Jersey since 2006, and Nikki McPhatter, missing for weeks before her burned body was located in South Carolina. The Kristen Foundation offered a reward for information about McPhatter's disappearance shortly before her body was found. The organization, which raises money to help families pay for the costs of searching for missing adults, announced the ordering of memorial bricks for these missing people who've made national headlines in recent months. DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
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    Allison Modafferi, sister of Kristen Modafferi, (a Park Scholar at N.C. State from Charlotte who disappeared a decade ago while working and studying in San Francisco), performs an original music selection she wrote during Tuesday evening's "Remembrance Ceremony: A Gathering of Hope" for people who have disappeared, held at Frazier Park and hosted by The Kristen Foundation for Missing Adults. DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
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    Joan Scanlon-Petruski, Founder and Director of the Kristen Foundation for Missing Adults, gave the opening welcome and remembered the missing. DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
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    Flanked by photographs of the missing (including l-r Kristen Modafferi, a Park Scholar at N.C. State from Charlotte who disappeared a decade ago while working and studying in San Francisco, Carla Vicentini, a 26-year-old missing from New Jersey since 2006, and Nikki McPhatter, missing for weeks before her burned body was located in South Carolina), Joan Scanlon-Petruski, Founder and Director of the Kristen Foundation for Missing Adults, gave the opening welcome and remembered the missing. DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
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    Detail of candle being lit. The Kristen Foundation for Missing Adults hosted a remembrance ceremony at Frazier Park Tuesday evening for a number of people who have disappeared. DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
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    Bob and Debbie Modafferi, parents of Kristen Modafferi, (a Park Scholar at N.C. State from Charlotte who disappeared a decade ago while working and studying in San Francisco), hold candles during Tuesday evening's "Remembrance Ceremony: A Gathering of Hope" for people who have disappeared, held at Frazier Park and hosted by The Kristen Foundation for Missing Adults. (In back l-r are Kristen's sisters Lauren and Meghan). DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
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    Attendees hold candles during Tuesday evening's "Remembrance Ceremony: A Gathering of Hope." DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
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    L-r Daniel Modafferi, 3, grandson of Kristen Modafferi's parents Bob and Debbie Modafferi and son of Lauren Modafferi, Kristen Modafferi's sister (Kristen Modafferi, a Park Scholar at N.C. State from Charlotte, disappeared a decade ago while working and studying in San Francisco), is hugged by Joan Scanlon-Petruski, Founder and Director of the Kristen Foundation for Missing Adults, at the conclusion of a brief candlelight ceremony concluding Tuesday evening's "Remembrance Ceremony: A Gathering of Hope." DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
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    L-r Lauren Modafferi, sister of Kristen Modafferi, (a Park Scholar at N.C. State from Charlotte who disappeared a decade ago while working and studying in San Francisco), is hugged by Joan Scanlon-Petruski, Founder and Director of the Kristen Foundation for Missing Adults, at the conclusion of a brief candlelight ceremony concluding Tuesday evening's "Remembrance Ceremony: A Gathering of Hope" at Frazier Park. DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
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