(CNN) -- No matter the years she has been away and the miles that separate her, Crystal Roles still calls Naoma, West Virginia, home. She left the mining town with her high school sweetheart, soon after they graduated and married in 1989. But every trip back home -- to the area the world has been watching for days -- is a reunion with a special world for the coal miner's daughter. "It's a breed of people, a group of people that are like nobody else," says Roles, 39. "The same people who are underground now, looking for the four missing, are kids I went to high school with."
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