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... An Ohio mom who experienced the scariest day of her life after losing her daughter in a crowd has an important message to share with parents planning to venture out this spring and summer.
Krista Piper Grundey, 36, and her two kids were hanging out in the play space of a museum they frequent in March of last year when her 3-year-old daughter, Lily, went missing, she confirmed with USA TODAY Friday.
"I started calling her name," Grundey shares in a video that now has nearly 700k views. "Right after I started calling her name a little light bulb went off in my head."
Grundey remembered a TikTok she had seen a year or more prior to the incident of a mother who had lost her child in a grocery store.
"Instead of yelling out the kid's name, she yelled out the description of what her child was wearing, and she was able to find her kid way faster," Grundey shared.
So, Grundey began calling out her daughter's description right away. "Little girl, pink shirt, pink Minnie Mouse shirt," she screamed out into the crowd.
Soon she began to hear other moms repeating her daughter's description, joining the effort to locate her little girl. "Thank, God," she Grundey said of the moment she felt she had an army behind her.
Finally, a mom screamed, "Little girl, pink shirt, Minnie Mouse," pointing to Grundey's daughter. ...
