BARRON, WI. (THECOUNT) — Jayme Closs, the young girl was rescued Thursday while walking down a road in a rural area in northwestern Wisconsin, has reunited with her aunt and dog on Friday afternoon, posing for a picture her aunt shared on the “Healing for Jayme Closs” Facebook page.

Closs, 13, fled a home where law enforcement says she was kept by Jake Thomas Patterson, 21.

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Jayme was expected to meet with other family members on Friday evening.

“Jayme is talking. She communicated with our team up there,” Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said on Friday. “Jayme is the hero in this case.” source

Officials said Jayme is doing well after having been missing from the Barron area since Oct. 15.

“She is doing great,” Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald told “Anderson Cooper Full Circle.”

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