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Gia’s enduring example Two Thanksgivings ago, she left her parents a sweet surprise By Julie Muhlstein Herald Writer
COURTESY OF THE SORIANO FAMILY
Gia Soriano, 14, died Oct. 26. She is remembered by her family as a kind and soft-spoken girl with an artistic flair and a love of children and animals.
MARYSVILLE — Two years ago on Thanksgiving, Gia Soriano surprised her parents with a note. Handwritten in tidy printing,
with the sort of smiley face used in texting, it was a sweet 12-yearold’s expression of gratitude. “I am writing this to you to tell you how thankful I am. I know I don’t always act like I am, but I am,” the Marysville girl wrote on
Nov. 22, 2012. She thanked her parents for her home, for food and friends. It ends: “You have raised me good. So thank you. I love you! Happy Thanksgiving!” What was then an unexpected gesture is now an irreplaceable
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gift. The note is a lasting remembrance, in Gia’s words, of a girl senselessly taken from her parents, Bryan and Susan Soriano, her 10-year-old brother, Anthony, See GIA, Page A2
Watch out for holiday thieves People are urged to take precautions as car prowls always increase this time of the year, especially around shopping center parking lots. By Rikki King Herald Writer
EVERETT — For a few moments, think like a crook. Look in your car windows. Do you see electronics? Receipts and mail? Shopping bags? Car prowls always increase during the holiTips to days, particularly avoid at shopping cenbecoming a ters, Everett police victim, A8 spokesman Aaron Snell said. Those items are particularly attractive to the bad guys. “They’re willing to break windows, break into cars, get what they can get and sort it out later,” he said. Snell doesn’t want people to be paranoid or go overboard on caution, he said, but they should make sure safety precautions are part of their holiday shopping plans. The Lynnwood Police Department recently conducted a quick check of vehicles parked at Edmonds Community College. Roughly half of the 270 cars were deemed “easy targets” for thieves, said Lisa Wellington, a crime prevention specialist. Police officers and their volunteers saw “purses, lots of loose change, skateboards, open windows, unlocked cars, GPS
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Tristen Byrd, 7, knows what it means to be thankful — “Like you’re glad for something, and sometimes you’re so glad for something you, like, jump around the house” — but the Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary student is less certain about something else. “I might be thankful for my brother, but he hits a lot, and pinches. So, I’m not really sure about him.” First and second grade students from Quil Ceda in Marysville and Chain Lake Elementary in Monroe talk about family traditions and more. Page A3
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Business . . . .A10 Classified . . . . B2
Comics . . . . . .D8 Crossword . . .D8
Poultry amnesty Really free range: President Obama pardoned two turkeys at the White House, 49-pound Cheese and his alternate, 47-pound Mac (Page A8). Republicans criticized Obama for, once again, overstepping his constitutional authority, saying his action Dear Abby. . . .D9 Horoscope . . . B8
had poisoned the gravy boat and they were considering responses that included refusal to pass the green bean casserole and voting to withhold whipped cream for the pumpkin pie. Did they take off their shirts first? About two dozen Russian oil workers waiting on a passenger jet in
Lottery . . . . . .A2 Northwest. . . . B1
Obituaries. . . .A8 Opinion. . . . .A12
Siberia got out and pushed the plane when they were told the brakes had frozen and they would have to wait (Page A7). And no one complained when the oil workers got back on board and reclined their seats. Don’t know much about history: On this day in Short Takes . D10 Sports . . . . . . . C1
1924, Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade took place in New York (Page D10). Absent any cartoon character balloons, parade organizers instead suspended rotund former President William Howard Taft from a dirigible and marched him along the parade route.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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