Every morning before she leaves for work, Beth Holloway makes sure to kiss the senior portrait of her late daughter, Natalee Holloway, to give her thanks for the strength she still provides her on a daily basis.
\n\nBeth Holloway spoke with NBC News correspondent Sam Brock for a segment that aired on TODAY Nov. 9 about what her life is like now that she finally received the answers she desperately sought for nearly two decades about her daughter’s disappearance and death in Aruba.
\n\n“The weight of the world has been lifted off me,” she said. “I spent 18 years in the dark. I just couldn’t see it. I couldn’t find it. I couldn’t hear it, and so I’d waited 18 years, and it’s horrible that that’s the news I get. Families need to know the answers, no matter how brutal they are.”
\n\nThe grandmother of two has resumed her work as a speech pathologist at an Alabama public school after taking nine years off to pursue the truth about her daughter’s death.
\n\n“I was determined by hope, and I was driven by love, and the love for my daughter, and to find out the answers to what happened to her…
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