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Aha! Turns out they didn't leave from SF, as the articles said. They were *already* in Seattle for Thanksgiving and had left from there to go back home to SF.

That missing puzzle piece was just found in the SF Chronicle. Snippets with repeat info taken out:

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" ... "It is really unusual for them not to call,'' said Ryan Lee, a longtime friend who had brunch with the family Saturday in Portland. "I don't want to let myself think that they are hurt. Apparently, I was the last person who knows them to see them, which is freaky.''

The Kims told Lee that they planned to stop by a clothing boutique in Portland, then drive to Gold Beach on the southern Oregon coast. They told him they had a hotel reservation there for Saturday night, Lee said.

"That was the last I heard from them,'' he said.

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James Kim, 35, a senior editor at CNET, lives with his wife and daughters in Noe Valley. The couple owns two small stores in San Francisco -- Doe, a clothing store on lower Haight Street, and the Church Street Apothecary in Noe Valley which sells baby goods and organic skincare potions.

Eva Kim, James' sister in San Francisco, said she last spoke to the family the day before Thanksgiving.

She said the family spent Thanksgiving night in Seattle with James' uncle and aunt, Clint and June Youn.

"We had a turkey dinner, everybody was happy,'' said Clint Youn by phone Thursday night. "I'm very worried, but I'm waiting for good news. I hope nothing happened.''

Two days later, the family met with Ryan for brunch in Portland.

"I hadn't seen them in about a year, so we had a lot to catch up on,'' said Lee, a customer support representative who moved to Portland from San Francisco two years ago. "We sat around and ate brunch and played with the kids...Everything was fine. They seemed happy, they talked about someday moving to Portland, getting a change from San Francisco.''

Back in San Francisco, Charlene Wright, an employee of the Apothecary store who was housesitting for the Kims expected to hear from them on Monday.

"Normally when Kati is out of town, she calls the store five or more times a day,'' said Wright. "But she didn't call'' on Monday.

By Tuesday, Wright began to worry, and on Wednesday morning, she filed a missing person's report.

Wright said that authorities have told her that the last outgoing calls from the Kims' cell phone was on Saturday around 2 p.m.

"Everyone has a theory ranging from the not-positive to the overly optimistic,'' said Wright. "The prevailing theory is that they got caught in bad weather and can't phone.'' ..."
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