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a 10-year-old girl is shown looking into the camera, and a second image of her shows what authorities think she might look like now at age 14

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Have you seen her? 10-year-old Serenity Dennard vanished in 2019. Here's how she might look now, at age 14

Serenity Dennard was just 10 years old when she escaped from Children’s Home Society, a locked facility for children with behavioral struggles nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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