Family, Friends and Neighbors Remember 7-Year-Old Somer Thompson

12:54 AM, Feb 4, 2012   |    comments
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ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine," family and friends of 7-year-old Somer Thompson sang at a candlelight vigil near her home in Orange Park Friday night.  It was one of Somer's favorite songs.

Justice, after years of torment.  It's a way to remember young Somer "and for keeping her memory alive," her mother Diena Thompson said.

It's a day no one wants to remember, but no one can forget. 

"Somer Thompson, my wife and I were here the day the Amber Alert went out," former neighbor Glen Conley said

A missing young girl hit very close to home for Chastity Letson. 

"My daughter was in her class, in her reading class, and I've just been out searching from the day she went missing to the day she was found," she said.

Neighbors shared their positive memories about Somer.  "Watch her stand on the corner and them playing in the yard in the daytime, and we would wave and they would wave," Anthony Johnson said.

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