The bedroom looks just as it did when 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi left it on a swelteringly hot afternoon in June 1983 — the dolls and stuffed toys on the shelves above her single bed are a reminder that she was little more than a child at the time of her disappearance.Much of the rest of her family's apartment in Rome's Vatican City also remains a shrine to Emanuela. In the living room there is the piano played by the talented young musician, and for years her mother Maria, now 92, kept the key to their home on a hook outside the front door in case her daughter ever returned.That hope was in vain. If Emanuela was still alive today, she would be in her mid-50s, probably with children of her own. But the last that her close-knit family ever saw of her was when she went out for a flute lesson on that fateful Wednesday, only to disappear soon afterwards.
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