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‘Romeo and Juliet’ teen couple goes missing

The parents of two Michigan teens who vanished after the girl’s mother objected to their intense relationship appealed to them Thursday to “just come home.”

Jayden Thomas, 13, and Braxton Wood, 14, took off Monday morning in the black Ford Explorer belonging to Wood’s family, and have not been seen since, Fox 17 reported.

“It’s like they fell off the face of the earth,” Jayden’s mother Kelly Drinkwine told the Detroit Free Press. “No one can find them.”

The young couple, who have been compared to Romeo and Juliet in some news accounts, had about $80 in cash between them when they disappeared. They also took a video game console, a coin collection, and other items that could be sold for cash, their parents said.

Originally, it was thought the two were headed from their homes in Isabella County, about 150 miles northwest of Detroit, to Florida to see a friend. But their families say that with so little money, the two are likely still in Michigan.

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