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Posted by Laura Berman (The Detroit News) on Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM

Neveah's Mom should never say she's sorry

Poor little Neveah Buchanan. The five-year-old Monroe girl who vanished from her mother's apartment house parking lot two weeks ago has touched hearts -- mine, included. But she's also filling that weird societal niche we seem to reserve for innocent children who have evil befall them: they're objects of pity and curiosity. This is TV show host Nancy Grace's stock in trade: The former prosecutor's passion for solving these crimes and for focusing on them is one symptom of

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About this Weblog

Laura Berman is a Detroit News columnist who writes about local, national and, occasionally, personal issues. She's using her blog as a place to react to breaking news, try out new ideas and reinvent old ones and get and give tips about the Detroit area and beyond. Readers are invited - no, begged - to comment, amuse, challenge, ponder and, even, rant.

Laura has been a features writer, columnist, business and political reporter and magazine staff writer at the Detroit Free Press, and a contributor to many national magazines. Her journalism awards include a National Headliner Award for column writing. She has a degree in history from the University of Michigan.

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