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Yusniar binti Ibrahim Nur, the mother, told The Associated Press she had all the evidence she needed. "She has her father's face," the 35-year-old woman said by telephone. "And when I saw the scar over her eye and mole on her hip, I was even more sure." It doesn't worry her, she said, that the girl and her husband have different accounts of what happened on the day the tsunami hit their tiny village of Ujong Baroh just outside of Meulaboh. Wati remembers her father putting her into a boat with her younger sister, long presumed dead as well, and then getting separated. She says she remembers being surrounded by water and crying. Her father says he put both of his daughters on the roof of their house hoping they'd be safe. "Maybe she fell into the boat, maybe someone helped her. I just don't know," said Yusniar. "I just thank God my prayers have been answered," she said. "For years, I searched everywhere. I'd really given up."
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