They are two families from different backgrounds, living in different corners of the country. But this morning the McCanns and the Entwistles will be reliving the horrors of May 3 - the day that their children disappeared.
For Gerry and Kate McCann, the 12 months since Madeleine vanished have been the most bewildering and public of emotional rollercoasters - a year of relentless, unprecedented police and media scrutiny.
For David and Paula Entwistle, what followed the disappearance in 2003 of their son, Daniel, then aged 7, was a markedly different experience.
There was the neighbourly support, the national appeals, the trawl of paedophile databases and the hurtful, malicious gossip. But by July that year the official searches had stopped, and by August the police announced that, although the case was not closed, officers were no longer assigned to it as a sole responsibility.
Daniel vanished from outside his home in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He had gone out to get a baby’s bottle for his younger brother and some sweets from the shop across the road. Then he headed round the corner on his bike. He was never seen again.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the weeks after Daniel’s disappearance, his father told The Times of the devastating impact on his family over the past five years.
It has been a time of desperation, isolation, acceptance and reconciliation - all underpinned by the harrowing uncertainty that, though they now feel it is likely that Daniel drowned, they can never be sure.
Mr Entwistle, 46, said that he relives the final time that he saw his son at the family home in Copperfield Avenue every day. His story, unlike that of the McCanns and their fateful evening in Praia da Luz, faded from public consciousness almost at once.
The rail maintenance worker had gone shopping with his wife, Paula, for clothes to take on a family holiday to Tenerife. When they returned, Mrs Entwistle went to bed feeling unwell.

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