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Azure Breeden came home Saturday night.
She is safe and sound and for now that is all that matters, a family member said as they collectively exhaled Saturday night on Mill Street in Bristol Borough shortly before 8 p.m.
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The 15 -year-old teenage girl who ran away last week looked tired, yet smiled as three generations of family surrounded her.
Breeden of Bristol Township was upset about peer group issue and left home on her own Thursday morning. She was was considered a run away, police told LevittownNow.com.
Tears, joy and a sense of general relief bounded off the store fronts in the heart of Bristol Borough’s business district with blessings being shared.
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Friends, family members and supporters looked on as Breeden embraced by her mother-Latasha Breeden, and her maternal grandmother (Maria Brown) (symbolically giving rise to the sense they were saying to the 15 -year old they won’t be letting go of her anytime soon as they clutched her.
Azure took in the scene as the relief of those surrounding her showered her, perhaps now fully realizing the her impact she has on those around her.
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“I’m just so glad she’s home” mother Latasha Breeden said, as tears pooled in the corner her eyes.
Azure’s return came as a result of friends and family sharing information on social media and the work of the Bristol Township Police Department Lt. Terry Hughes, Breeden’s mother said.
“If it wasn’t for the work of Lt. Hughes, we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to get her phone pinged” so the family could track the teenage girl, she said.
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“We were told Lt. Hughes wasn’t it in at the time and we happened to walk over to the Well Fargo Bank and he (Hughes) was there,” she said.
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“The lieutenant took the time to listen to what we had to say and really helped us and we’re beyond grateful for it,” Latasha said.
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“The whole department really helped, which started the process of getting Azure home,” she added.
An attempt to reach Hughes for comment late Saturday night was unsuccessful.
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Specific details as to where Azure was and what she has been doing since Thursday, when she left are sketchy at best. One family member said “tonight’s not the time to her interrogate the 15 year old but to embrace her.”
What is known, is early Saturday afternoon Azure called her father, Michael Knight, using a cell phone and told him she was in “Chester” and wanted to “come home.”
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Knight said her uncle went to pick her up and on the way back they ran into traffic so the two stopped off “to eat and do some talking.”
“God is Good,” Knight quietly repeated, watching Azure from the corner of his eye, as fathers tend to do when it comes to their daughters, as she was surrounded by a protective wall of friends and family.
As the 20 or so family and friends began to part ways under the street lights of Mill Street, off to the left side, leaning on one of the many storefronts lining the street, were mother and daughter. They were just talking.
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“We’re just looking forward to getting things back to normal and getting some” supports in place for Azure so we can help her as best we can as a family, Latasha said.
It was a private moment, but one of significance none the less, because they were engaged, communicating… and listening to each other as they both nodded during the interaction-Azure is home now…And that’s what matters.
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