ORLANDO, Fla. — The family of missing mother Michelle Parker recently marked a grim milestone — 10-years since she disappeared. 

The 33-year-old was last seen Nov. 17, 2011, after dropping off her twins with their father and her ex-fiance, Dale Smith, at his Orlando home. 

Parker had just appeared with Smith on an episode of the TV show “The People’s Court” that day. The Orlando Police Department named Smith a prime suspect the disappearance but never charged him with a crime. So far detectives in the case have not reported any new leads or developments in the case. 

“We’re still looking for her and we’re still trying to find her, and the more exposure we’ve got, the better chance we have of finding Michelle,” said Brad Parker, Michelle’s father.

Strumming on his guitar, Parker often sings a song he wrote for his Michelle since she went missing.  It’s one way he can still show his daughter love.

“If she’s up there, she can hear it,” Parker said.

Michelle’s stepmother Gayle still has stickers on her truck she placed there not long after Michelle disappeared. Some of those stickers are now so faded, it’s hard to tell what was originally on them.

“Ten years, 10 long years, that somehow seem like it was yesterday,” Gayle Parker said. “But looking at that, you know it wasn’t yesterday.”

Divorced years before Michelle’s disappearance but united in loss, Michelle’s mother, Yvonne Stewart, said there’s not a day when she doesn’t think of her daughter at least 10 times.

“There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of her so, so, so, so much,” Stewart said. “I talk to her, and that helps. But it’s still a big, big hole in our hearts — all of our hearts. It’s hard for all of us, even 10 years later.”

Pictures are difficult for her to look at for long, but they give Michelle a place in her heart and in her home. Stewart said her other children and even some grandchildren help keep her going.

One of those “grandchildren,” Diesel, is a dog that Michelle rescued at a gas station just weeks before she went missing.

“It’s wonderful to have a piece of her,” Stewart said.  “It will be sad when the day comes when he moves on.”

Stewart finds peace in nurturing what she still can, including banana and pineapple plants around her home. 

“I think anytime you get back to the land and nature, this is what we’re all here for, and it grounds you,” Stewart said. 

Each day that passes by, she believes she’s one day closer to seeing her daughter again.

“I’m looking forward to going to heaven one day and seeing her again,” Stewart said. 

Orlando Police ask anyone who knows anything about Parker’s disappearance to call Crimeline. Callers can remain anonymous. That number is 1-800-423-TIPS (8477).