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 Terry Probyn was reunited with her daughter Jaycee Dugard last month.
Probyn said in a statement Wednesday that she hopes her family's story will focus attention on all missing children. She said her daughter's story proves that "miracles can happen."
Dugard was 11 when police say Phillip and Nancy Garrido kidnapped her, then allegedly held her captive. Police say the couple raped Dugard, now 29, and Phillip Garrido fathered her two children. They have pleaded not guilty.
Probyn has been in seclusion with Dugard and Dugard's daughters since their reunification Aug. 27. She says they are doing very well under the circumstances.
The statement from Probyn came after a 63-year-old man who claims he is Dugard's biological father asked for a private meeting with Dugard during a news conference Wednesday in Los Angeles.
Reading from a statement, Ken Slayton said he wants Dugard to know that he and his wife and children "long to be the loving, supportive and normal family to her and her children that she has not had for 18 years."
Slayton was accompanied by attorney Gloria Allred, who said Slayton wants to arrange a meeting with Dugard and a confidential paternity test.
"He wants nothing from her," Allred said. "What they really want to do is love her."
Allred said Probyn and Slayton had dated for about a month in 1979 when Probyn became pregnant. Probyn never told him she had the baby, Allred said.
A spokeswoman for the Dugard family said they have not been contacted by Slayton since Dugard was found.
"This all comes as a big surprise," spokeswoman Erika Schulte told The Los Angeles Times.
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