Face on the Milk Carton

This story is about a teenage girl named Janie Johnson, she’s been living

a perfectly normal life, until she sees a picture of a missing three year old girl,

on a milk carton named Jennie spring, who was kidnapped from a shopping

center in new jersey. the girl looks surprisingly familiar to her, the one thing

that stands out the most was her dress. She later realizes that the person on

the milk carton is herself. She begins to have flash backs and memories of her

childhood, and she remembers small details about her family. At this point

Janie is very confused and doesn’t know whether to think of her loving parents

as kidnappers, or consider the fact that the whole situation could be a big

misunderstanding. Soon janies situation started affecting her school work, and

social life, she became so obsessed wit the situation that she couldn’t

concentrate at all. As the story progressed, Janie wanted more answers, she

wanted to know why she had no birth certificate, or why she didn’t have any

photographs taken of her until she was five years old, she wasn’t ready to ask

her parents about it, so instead she decided to find information regarding her

past somewhere in the house. Janie found a trunk in the attic that was full of

papers, and pictures of a girl named Hannah, and all the way at the bottom of

the trunk, was a dress. The same dress that the girl on the milk carton was

wearing. Janie had a neighbor named reeve, one morning they were riding to

school, and they decided to ditch and drive around. They lived in Connecticut,

and Janie wanted to drive down to new jersey, because that is where jenny

spring was kidnapped from. She ended up explaining everything to reeve, who

found it hard to believe, throughout the sorry Janie was constantly getting

flashbacks of her childhood, remembering random moments with her “real”

family in new jersey. That night when Janie got home, she sat down her

parents and asked them about who she really was. Janie’s parents were

shocked, but they ended up telling her that Hannah was their daughter, and

Janie was there granddaughter. They told her that Hannah was in some sort of

cult, and was forced into marriage one day. She ended up having a child, and

three years later she showed up at her parents door step; leaving Janie for

them to take care of. Ever since then Hannah had never returned and their was

no word from her. Instead of being upset, Janie was relieved to hear this news,

because she was glad to know that her parents hadn’t kidnapped her after all.

She was so overjoyed that she forgot about the milk carton, and the picture of herself on it. The problem was that Janie couldn’t figure out weather to

believe her parents, or consider the fact that her real family was out there

looking for her. Janie knew their had to me more to the situation, their was

something neither her nor her parents knew about. She clearly began to

remember being in a mall, walking off, and ending up in some woman’s car.

Towards the end of the story, reeve’s sister who was a lawyer, had talked to

the family in new jersey, making it clear that Janie was their daughter. Which

meant that Hannah was not her mother. The truth shocked everyone, nobody

had known that Hannah had gone to new jersey and kidnapped a three year old

girl named Jennie spring, and later bringing her home to her parents claiming

that she is her daughter. After the truth came out Janie was in denial, she

loved he parents and didn’t want to change her life, but the resolution of the

story was when Janie called her real family in new jersey saying “it me Jennie

spring, your daughter.”