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McCanns to Winfrey: Madeleine is still alive
May 5 2009, AP

In a tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday, the parents of a British girl who disappeared two years ago from a Portuguese resort asked their daughter’s alleged abductor to “tell us where she is.”

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