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Heidi 02:29 PM 07-18-2019
My sister had a "near miss" 25 years ago with my niece, who was about 3 or 4 at the time.

They have a tuck-under garage, accessible through the house. They were headed out to the grocery store, so my sister told Tiff to go down and get her shoes on. Then, the phone (landline) rang, and my sister spent a good 10 minutes dealing with whatever it was on the phone. She then went downstairs to put her own shoes on. Her daughter was not in the hall, so she thought she'd gone back upstairs. A few minutes of searching, and no Tiffany.

Finally, she checked the car. There was Tiffany, in her car seat, screaming, red hot, and completely hysterical. She'd gotten her shoes on, opened the car, gotten in, closed the door, buckled in, and then couldn't get back out. She panicked, and of course that made matters worse-it was also the middle of summer.

My sister got her out, comforted her, put washcloths on her head to cool her down, and called the doctor. It could have been a much different outcome!

Tiffany is now a mother of a beautiful 1 year old.
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