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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #160 on: May 11, 2006, 10:05:26 pm »
I have just come across this thread, Chris I feel for you and your family. my thoughts are with you all.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #161 on: May 12, 2006, 08:42:53 pm »
Hiya Chris. A bit late I know, but just a quick note to say it was a cracking night last Saturday & I was wondering how much you raised.

Alright mate. Cheers for coming along and that. The final amount will be just over £3000 and we still have some items spare - I'll be posting details about these in the near future.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #162 on: May 23, 2006, 07:02:01 pm »
This is terrible,  pray to god he's walking thro your door anytime soon.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #163 on: May 26, 2006, 09:44:22 pm »
The UK police have been out to Greece this week finally announcing the reward (which is what the fundraiser was actually for but we couldn't really talk about it too much) so hopefully something will come of it. The amount of the reward as it stands, and as we were advised is 7000 euros.

It may not sound much but apparently the greek who wants to be a millionaire top prize is 32000 euros and we have also been told that the state pension equates to 65 euros a month. Not sure how true this is but if that's the case then hopefully the 7000 euros is enough for someone to come forward.

Obviously the fundraiser has gone some, if not all the way to funding the reward so for all who donated or bid for an item, thanks so much once again, not least because your efforts and the efforts of Liverpool fans is what is going to help us find the truth behind these past 8 months and hopefully bring Stevie home to us.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #164 on: May 29, 2006, 06:24:28 pm »
Nice one Chris. Good luck with it.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #165 on: July 5, 2006, 09:08:40 pm »
Just been reading this thread again and one on the Malia forums. I'm off to Malia with the lads next week, we're all from Liverpool like, so Chris or anyone else who knows Steve, if there is anything I can do let me know.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #166 on: July 7, 2006, 12:34:35 am »
I came across this thread now

I hope he comes trough your door sometime soon

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #167 on: July 9, 2006, 05:01:46 pm »
Just been reading this thread again and one on the Malia forums. I'm off to Malia with the lads next week, we're all from Liverpool like, so Chris or anyone else who knows Steve, if there is anything I can do let me know.

going meself in two weeks, forgot this is where he went missing till i read this thread again.

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #168 on: July 28, 2006, 01:25:12 am »
He went missing the week after I came home from there. Tis a mad plae, just outside Malia I mean. Kept expectin someone to say he was hiding on that island just off the beach last yr. Has gone beonde serious tho. Hope its resolved very soon. Very scarey

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #169 on: August 15, 2006, 11:04:02 pm »
Was just checking the greek website "Through the Tunnel" to see if they had Steven's missing person's description on its website.  Thankfully they still do at: http://www.anikolouli.gr/indexuk.asp?Cat_ID=65 .  Just to let people know that the programme will be returning to Alter next month. Hopefully, an update will be included.  If they do I shall let you know as my mum watches the programme religiously every Friday evening.  Fingers crossed something turns up.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #170 on: August 31, 2006, 04:21:50 pm »
A year gone already.  Thinking of Chris and all the family today.

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #171 on: August 31, 2006, 07:07:31 pm »
Aye, was on the local news about 20 minutes ago.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #172 on: August 31, 2006, 11:04:44 pm »
It seems so soon, and yet to those close to Steven it will have been the longest time. I'm certain that I can speak for all at Rawk, staff and members in sending our best wishes to Chris and the rest of the Cook family.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #173 on: September 3, 2006, 12:44:12 am »
Just heard a report on "Up All Night" on 5 Live, from his brother.  He related what had happened on the night Steve disappeared and appealed for help from anyone leaving for a holiday in that part of the world.
He gave thanks to family, friends, the people of Liverpool and various web sites for their support since Steve's disappearance and said they have still not given up hope.

My thoughts are with you and your family Steve. I wish I could do something to help.

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #174 on: September 3, 2006, 01:00:03 am »
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #175 on: September 3, 2006, 01:27:26 am »
Aye Chris was on 5live tonight. Was talking to him last night, and we've agreed Steve is hiding in Athens waiting for May.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #176 on: September 28, 2006, 01:19:55 am »
Cheers everyone once again, kmo1969  - Im getting back in touch with Xaris who's my contact on the show - she usually is one of them that does the phones.

Although a year or so has now gone the whole family still remain positive - just the other week a woman who has seen a poster that a Greek missing persons charity have put up claims to have seen him and that's she's pretty sure it was him. Although such sightings are a great lift you kind of ground yourself knowing that many young english lads look the same to locals. Still, it's summat, and even after all this time we know thanks to everyones efforts that we don't and never will walk alone in all of this.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #177 on: October 25, 2006, 03:35:01 pm »
bump.

my son turns 1 tomorrow, and i couldnt imagine 1 day without a person i love so much, as to the horror of more than a year.

my thoughts are with you.

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #178 on: December 16, 2006, 09:22:54 am »
The UK police have been out to Greece this week finally announcing the reward (which is what the fundraiser was actually for but we couldn't really talk about it too much) so hopefully something will come of it. The amount of the reward as it stands, and as we were advised is 7000 euros.

It may not sound much but apparently the greek who wants to be a millionaire top prize is 32000 euros and we have also been told that the state pension equates to 65 euros a month. Not sure how true this is but if that's the case then hopefully the 7000 euros is enough for someone to come forward.

We Hellenians are generally not money greedy. Trust me, if someone had news about Steve, he would have told it to the police instantly, without wanting any rewards. I just want you to know that we are still looking for him and praying for him.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #179 on: December 28, 2006, 06:06:32 pm »
Thanks Lord7, I'm sure Chris will be heartened that people in Crete are still looking and praying.

At this time of year Chris and his family will need our support more than ever.

Below is an article Chris recently wrote for Sky News:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,15410-13558417,00.html

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Why I Still Believe
Updated: 16:20, Thursday December 21, 2006

There could be new hope for the thousands of families who'll spend Christmas wondering what's happened to a loved one who's disappeared.

A new computer-linked partnership between the National Missing Persons charity and the police's Missing Persons Bureau will exchange data on the 200,000 people who go missing in Britain every year.

Sky's Tom Parmenter has been finding out what it's like for those left behind when someone simply vanishes.

He spoke to Chris Cook whose brother Steven, of Sandbach, Cheshire disappeared in Crete 15 months ago.

This is what Chris had to say:

I wish I'd said goodbye, gave him a big hug and told him how much I loved him and how I always had done. How I always will.

Fifteen months have passed since the day he went missing and there has been not a second in each minute that we all don't miss him.

Dealing with the physical space is probably the easiest aspect of it all as the family are closer than ever, even though we always were extremely close.

Being together, supporting each other through this, has stopped us all from taking any time with each other for granted.

One other aspect has been to become sensitised to others in similar situations.

Whenever any of us see a news headline of a missing person we know all too familiarly the emotional churn that they are going through.

We also know the loneliness.

Nobody officially comes forward to help you through the situation. To counsel you through it all.

Thankfully, the open arms of the community and often those of strangers keep you going as much as anything.

Through such support we can, and have slowly rebuilt. Well, I say rebuild, it's more of a reconstruction, like building a house ripped down by a tornado with the remnant materials that are left.

Lives cobbled together, lives which go on although the nightmares remain and are always evident.

I can't remember the last night I slept without struggle or the last night I slept well and wanted to face life outside with anything remotely like enthusiasm. I often get to sleep at the same time mum and dad are waking up.

That sums up the state of 'in between nowhere' we find ourselves in.
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During the first days and months there was a massive internet awareness campaign and as a result we received, first hand, lots of valuable information.

Now, with the crumbtrail disappearing the clues are no more than a natural fuel for nightmares: Tourists dumping their friends in industrial-sized bins as a joke; Albanian and gypsy gangs who specialise in mugging tourists; tourists going for a swim while drunk.

There are so many truths, half-truths, rumours, and contadictions that you have nothing.

So, 15 months have passed and even my best friends struggle to ask the question what I think has happened.

The simple answer is that I don't know. There's a feeling in my heart that Steve is alive.

So many people have given instances where people have disappeared without a trace only to have turned up again.

The odds are that without contact for such a long time my brother is no longer with us, but odds are for those that want to gain from a situation. I just want mine and my families' lives back.

As Steve said one night in May 2005 at half time: Believe! believe! believe!

I honestly feel he said it for a reason, and I will drag myself up to support the family, to find Steve, for every day that I have left.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #180 on: January 10, 2007, 08:11:49 pm »
Happy Birthday Steve. See you in Athens in May.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #181 on: February 28, 2007, 10:09:42 pm »
So sad that this is still going on.

You're all still in our thoughts.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #182 on: March 1, 2007, 07:52:54 pm »
So sad that this is still going on.

You're all still in our thoughts.

My thoughts to. Very sad and very tough for Steve's family.



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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #183 on: March 27, 2007, 06:36:03 pm »
New Myspace account set up to spread awareness:

www.myspace.com/findstevencook
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #184 on: May 9, 2007, 10:58:36 am »
Hope no one minds, and of course my thoughts are there for Steve and his whole family, but i thought with a stack of reds going to be in greece for over the next couple of weeks and travelling around the mainland and greek islands if there was any further news about steve?, or to just make people aware of what is happening.


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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #185 on: May 10, 2007, 02:37:05 pm »
That's a really good idea. If you or anyone you know is going just take a couple of minutes to print a copy of the missing poster:

http://www.findstevencook.co.uk/poster.pdf

Perhaps a greek version is available, I'll ask Chris.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #186 on: May 11, 2007, 11:11:31 am »
I would love to be going but unfortunately can't,  my mates that are going will be taking some posters, lets hope many other reds will do the same and you never know, something may come of it
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #187 on: May 11, 2007, 11:17:15 am »
a few of us will be going to Crete a week today so will take a few copies of the poster with me

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #188 on: May 12, 2007, 11:28:03 pm »
ill be asking locals when i arrive next week, taxi drivers,bar staff,hotel waiters, everyone.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #189 on: May 13, 2007, 02:21:44 am »
We're going to crete next week.  Will take posters and ask locals all we can. 
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #190 on: May 15, 2007, 09:47:10 am »
Cheers for putting the link on Armin.

If anyone can help out by distributing the English poster around where they are going, hotels, bars etc then it's greatly appreciated.

I also have a greek translation which I can send out if you email me on chriscook75 at googlemail dot com.

We're also getting 500 hard copies printed out - if you want some sending please let me know via email.

Your help is really appreciated, and helps us to keep believing.

Thanks

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #191 on: May 15, 2007, 09:28:44 pm »
Great idea this - hopefully it at least brings some new leads which help in finding Steve.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #192 on: May 16, 2007, 07:16:12 pm »
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #193 on: May 21, 2007, 10:19:36 pm »
Chris has written this, please post this anywhere you want.

http://www.ynwa.tv/news/index.php/2007/May/2376

So here we go again - Chris Cook
Monday, 21st May 2007

So here we are again, our second Champions league final in two years. Once more unto the breach against AC Milan. Although for me the two finals could not be sharper in contrast.
 
Little did I know back then, in 2005, how just a few months on from the greatest night of my life we'd be tipped to the very depths of despair. A completely different end of the emotional scale. Where, in the Ataturk I felt that alive that I was numb, soon it would be the numbness that would remind me I was alive. That those yellow peril taxis of Istanbul would just a few months later be swapped for Cretian versions zigzagging with that same sense of madness as they took me and my brother Tony to a hospital to identify somebody on life support. Somebody that we hoped was our Steve, who'd gone missing just days before. A sense of hope and dread prevailed on both ocassions. Although for two entirely different reasons.
 
I can't quite put into words the past 21 months. When I do it swamps and dizzies me with some of the stuff we have had to face up to: the hope of potential sightings, the psychics who contacted us with some saying he's dead and some saying he's alive, the feeling of hopelessness about the investigation over there, the people who have contacted us with various accounts of local mafia, Albanians, drug gangs and that; not knowing how hard you push before you push too far, the rumours that circulated and still do about what has happened to Ste - including in our home town where people claim to have heard he's alive, home and well. Nothing is concrete. Just a big mush that you do your best to make sense of.
 
Thes past few weeks many of these wounds have been reopend with little Madeliene going missing. In the faces of her parents, I see the mirror image of my own. The weight loss, the having to be there for the media but not knowing how to deal with them. To balance hope with personal despair, and again, the trying to push, but not too far. The ghosts of lives trying to be lived. Seeing, and feeling it all again I don't know how we got through it ourselves.
 
You just keep going. Recently, with the team going to Athens we have tried to kick start things again and get as much media coverage as possible. It may sound distasteful, but as a friend who's a journalist said - 'you have to go for it as a lot of news relies on coincidence' - and with little Maddie's case, the final being in Greece, and Istanbul being Steve's last game we have tried to go for it but you can't always get on the news agenda after all of this time. A lot of effort can go into such things with little reward. That's been difficult for Mum and Dad but then just a few months Ste went missing their appearance on GMTV was sadly cut short and overshadowed by Bruce Forsyth's dog going missing. Things may change and be out of your control but our drive in trying to find Steve will not.
 
The one other constant that has kept us all going though is Liverpool football club. Not just on the pitch. The community. Without your support I don't know where we would be. In many respects whilst so much inside of us feels like it has died, Liverpool has kept us going. I guess when other parts of you don't feel like functioning having no heart as big makes up for it. Whether it's the odd email or message of support right through to the fundraising night where you kindly donated and bid on various items to raise the reward for Steve's case. Even now, the effort to find him rests more on scousers taking a few hundred posters over to distibute in hotels and bars than anything else we can practically do. None of the family can thank the people of Liverpool and it's wider community enough, and neither can I find the words to, they've already been written in a song you might have heard of called You'll never walk alone.
 
So, no going to the final for me this time. I'll be in Liverpool instead. I won't have a scouse accent, but I'll know how it feels to be one because you've put so much into our lives at the darkest, emptiest of times. If you are going to Athens then I'm sure you'll have the time of your life, and if you happen to see a scruffy 22 year old on the scrounge for ale money and a ticket then, by habit, it'll probably be our Steve. If it is, tell him to get his arse back home. We miss him like mad.

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #194 on: May 22, 2007, 12:13:55 am »
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #195 on: May 22, 2007, 06:02:40 pm »
Stan has just posted this as a bulletin on his my space i dont know if any one who whas my space wants to pass it on & repost it as a bulletin so it will reach all the people on their friend lists to

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Hi,my name is Stan Collymore,i used to play soccer for Steven Cook's favourite soccer team,Liverpool FC,and i'd love to draw your attention to the disappearance of Steven Cook
today. I received this heart wrenching open letter from his family through a friend,and i would like to do everything i can,especially as Liverpool are in Athens this week,to help get him home to his family.He went missing in Malia,Crete in September 2005.If you can post this as a bulletin or viral email on to your contacs and friends,then hopefully we can highlight and jog memories.Please read his families comments,it makes you realise the value of family.Peace,Stan Collymore.

An Open Letter Fron Steven Cook's Family
21st May 2007

So here we are again, our second Champions league final in two years. Once more unto the breach against AC Milan. Although for me the two finals could not be sharper in contrast.

Little did I know back then, in 2005, how just a few months on from the greatest night of my life we'd be tipped to the very depths of despair. A completely different end of the emotional scale. Where, in the Ataturk I felt that alive that I was numb, soon it would be the numbness that would remind me I was alive. That those yellow peril taxis of Istanbul would just a few months later be swapped for Cretian versions zigzagging with that same sense of madness as they took me and my brother Tony to a hospital to identify somebody on life support. Somebody that we hoped was our Steve, who'd gone missing just days before. A sense of hope and dread prevailed on both ocassions. Although for two entirely different reasons.

I can't quite put into words the past 21 months. When I do it swamps and dizzies me with some of the stuff we have had to face up to: the hope of potential sightings, the psychics who contacted us with some saying he's dead and some saying he's alive, the feeling of hopelessness about the investigation over there, the people who have contacted us with various accounts of local mafia, Albanians, drug gangs and that; not knowing how hard you push before you push too far, the rumours that circulated and still do about what has happened to Ste - including in our home town where people claim to have heard he's alive, home and well. Nothing is concrete. Just a big mush that you do your best to make sense of.

Thes past few weeks many of these wounds have been reopend with little Madeliene going missing. In the faces of her parents, I see the mirror image of my own. The weight loss, the having to be there for the media but not knowing how to deal with them. To balance hope with personal despair, and again, the trying to push, but not too far. The ghosts of lives trying to be lived. Seeing, and feeling it all again I don't know how we got through it ourselves.

You just keep going. Recently, with the team going to Athens we have tried to kick start things again and get as much media coverage as possible. It may sound distasteful, but as a friend who's a journalist said - 'you have to go for it as a lot of news relies on coincidence' - and with little Maddie's case, the final being in Greece, and Istanbul being Steve's last game we have tried to go for it but you can't always get on the news agenda after all of this time. A lot of effort can go into such things with little reward. That's been difficult for Mum and Dad but then just a few months Ste went missing their appearance on GMTV was sadly cut short and overshadowed by Bruce Forsyth's dog going missing. Things may change and be out of your control but our drive in trying to find Steve will not.

The one other constant that has kept us all going though is Liverpool football club. Not just on the pitch. The community. Without your support I don't know where we would be. In many respects whilst so much inside of us feels like it has died, Liverpool has kept us going. I guess when other parts of you don't feel like functioning having no heart as big makes up for it. Whether it's the odd email or message of support right through to the fundraising night where you kindly donated and bid on various items to raise the reward for Steve's case. Even now, the effort to find him rests more on scousers taking a few hundred posters over to distibute in hotels and bars than anything else we can practically do. None of the family can thank the people of Liverpool and it's wider community enough, and neither can I find the words to, they've already been written in a song you might have heard of called You'll never walk alone.

So, no going to the final for me this time. I'll be in Liverpool instead. I won't have a scouse accent, but I'll know how it feels to be one because you've put so much into our lives at the darkest, emptiest of times. If you are going to Athens then I'm sure you'll have the time of your life, and if you happen to see a scruffy 22 year old on the scrounge for ale money and a ticket then, by habit, it'll probably be our Steve. If it is, tell him to get his arse back home. We miss him like mad

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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #196 on: June 29, 2007, 11:21:06 pm »
Still in my thoughts and a lot of others to i would of thought. YNWA.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #197 on: June 30, 2007, 10:22:02 am »
Aye, should be seeing Chris later for a few beers. Don't think there has been any update at all lately either.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #198 on: June 30, 2007, 10:43:53 am »
Aye, should be seeing Chris later for a few beers. Don't think there has been any update at all lately either.

I don't think I'd be able to cope with one of mine missing.
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Re: Steve Cook, missing in Crete, can you help?
« Reply #199 on: June 30, 2007, 12:00:44 pm »
i always take a look at this link when i am on line.  my thoughts are with chris and his family, it must be so difficult trying to cope when you don't have any news from day to day, i wouldn't have a clue about what to do with myself if i was in chris' shoes.

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