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Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle
Philisha Montgomery cries during the name reading. The quilt is being shown at several locations throughout San Francisco.

Petaluma hairstylist Nicole Sessi was in the Castro on Sunday, looking for her uncle, who died of AIDS in 1990 when she was in the fourth grade.

Sessi's mother, who spent the past 21 years sewing a fabric tribute to her only brother, was there, too. She had sent off the panel she created for inclusion in the AIDS Memorial Quilt only three months ago, it was so difficult to part with.

But Sunday, when 40 sections of the quilt, which moved from San Francisco to Atlanta with the Names Project Foundation in 1999, made a trip back for its largest homecoming display since, neither Sessi nor her mother could find the panel.

"We were hoping to see it, but it wasn't here," said a teary-eyed Sessi, now 27. "Maybe one day."

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[William769]

1. I have visited the quilt in various parts of the Country.

After each visit, I spend weeks in a deep state of depression.

Unfortunately the quilt is so big that it can not be shown at one location in it's entirety.