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A 78-year-old Frenchwoman suffering from Alzheimer's disease who was missing for nearly a week after falling on a walk in an Alpine forest was found alive over the weekend and hospitalized. "That's enough! No more forests; I don't want to see them anymore. I want to go to a retirement home," Michele Riotton told journalists from her hospital bed in the French Alpine town of Thonon-les-Bains. Riotton said she remembers "slipping into a ravine and then falling asleep" while on a walk through a forest after leaving her home in the village of Armoy on August 29. Dressed in a light jacket, she spent six nights out in the open and had nothing to eat the whole time except two biscuits that had been stuffed in a pocket and only drank rainwater that ran down her face. "I wasn't afraid," Riotton said. "I thought mostly about the worry I was causing my children and grandchildren." A two-day search had been mounted for Riotton without success. A second search was conducted Saturday, which found her lying at the bottom of a steep ravine in a pile of leaves 700 meters from her home. AFP |
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