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A Montreal mother whose infant child disappeared 40 years ago this week has penned a letter to her daughter, asking her where she may be and hoping for her return.

“It is so hard to live with this wait year after year. I am trying to never lose hope but this has marked our daily lives and left open wounds that do not heal,” Liliane Cyr writes in the letter to her daughter, Yohanna.

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“I am still without any news from you, always in the unknown, always asking myself questions for nearly 40 years,” Cyr adds. “That represents 14,595 days. Where are you? Why have we not found you?”

Yohanna Cyr was only 18 months old when she vanished from her mother’s St-Laurent apartment exactly 40 years ago this Wednesday.

On Aug. 15, 1978, Cyr left her daughter in the care of her then-boyfriend while she went to work outside of the city.

When the man went to join Cyr a few days later, he told her Yohanna was being babysat by his parents in Boston. But after Cyr headed to Boston to pick her up, his story changed: Yohanna had drowned in the bathtub, Cyr says he told her, and he had no choice but to bury her.