Overview
- In interviews tied to a Rizzoli book due Nov. 25 and timed near Ylenia’s Nov. 29 birthday, Power says she is convinced her daughter is alive.
- She cites a friar’s recent words and a mother’s intuition, saying she would have felt it if Ylenia had died.
- Power rejects long-circulated claims that Ylenia used drugs or jumped into the Mississippi and disputes an aquarium guard’s purported sighting.
- She recalls Pope John Paul II kissing her forehead and asking about news of Ylenia at a World Youth Day concert in Rio.
- Power describes her current life in Puglia with about 90,000 bees, criticizes daytime pesticide spraying, and proposes a foundation for missing girls while noting her son Yari’s years of searches and support from Sophia Loren.