Hannah Kobayashi appears to address father’s suicide six months after he took his life while trying to find her

Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi returned to societal media to stock her vague thoughts connected nonaccomplishment and condolences six months aft her begetter took his ain life while she was presumed missing.

Kobayashi, 31, was believed to beryllium missing successful November aft information footage astatine Los Angeles International Airport caught her bizarrely exiting nan building erstwhile she was expected to beryllium boarding a connecting formation to sojourn her family successful New York.

No 1 successful her family had been capable to scope her for a period until she returned from a abrupt travel to Mexico, wherever she said she’d been walking unsocial pinch no hint astir nan monolithic search for her underway successful nan United States.

Her father, 58-year-old Ryan Kobayashi, trekked to LAX to thief authorities hunt for his daughter. Two weeks into nan investigation, he jumped disconnected a parking building adjacent nan airdrome and killed himself.

When nan younger Kobayashi returned to nan US, she made nary mention of her father’s untimely decease connected societal media.

Now six months later, she shared a vague video astir really life is “such a precious gift…especially aft specified nonaccomplishment and symptom and suffering.”

“We should each study to beryllium benignant to 1 different and cherish each azygous infinitesimal that we tin because we are each connected,” Kobayashi said.

The photographer besides responded to a user’s remark successful a erstwhile station drilling her for supposedly not attending her father’s funeral.

“You don’t cognize nan full story. My volition successful this station is to admit that I americium going to speak astir my acquisition and to guidelines up against each nan dislike that was formed upon me,” Kobayashi wrote.

“I dream that successful your darkest hours, you are shown compassion and emotion versus dislike and judgment.”

Kobayashi’s whirlwind misadventure from Hawaii to California to Mexico was reportedly nan culmination of a green paper matrimony strategy gone wrong. She was primitively readying to sojourn New York pinch her caller husband, Argentine nationalist Alan Cacace, to spot relatives and sojourn celebrated attractions to make their sham narration look much believable.

They traveled successful tandem pinch Kobayashi’s ex-boyfriend and his ain greenish paper spouse. But nan play spiraled arsenic jealousies reportedly flared, and location on nan way, Kobayashi decided to break disconnected from nan group and return a autobus to Mexico solo.

Before leaving, she sent a series of alarming matter messages to her friends and family astir her costs being stolen and being tricked by “someone [she] thought [she] loved.”

Cacace allegedly promised Kobayashi $15,000 to wed him and an further sum if nan archiving fooled officials and he was permitted to enactment successful nan U.S.

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