A woman who ran away from America to chase The Beatles wants to find a man from Liverpool she fell in love with.
Janice Mitchell, from Cleveland, Ohio, ran away from home to come to England aged 16 along with her friend Martha Schendel in 1964.
The teenagers planned on staying in England forever and wanted to live "where the Beatles were" but due to circumstances only stayed for 23 days.
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Speaking to the ECHO, the now 73-year-old said: "We left Cleveland, my friend and I, without telling anybody after having prepared for the whole summer to leave home - getting passports, getting a one way ticket to Heathrow.
"I was intending to never return home because I wanted to go and live in Beatle land.
"The Beatles song I Want To Hold Your Hand, which I first heard on the radio, which transformed me and changed the trajectory of my life aged 15.
"I had been in a very unhappy home and The Beatles just brought joy and happiness like I had not known.
"So I wanted to come to England and live where The Beatles were.
"There was a Beatles concert in September 15, 1964, so we made our arrangements to leave the day after, which we left without telling anyone.
"Instead of going to school that morning we got in a taxi without suitcases and flew to Heathrow and started our new life in Beatle land and rented a small flat in Holland Park.
"I began going to Soho because I read in a Beatle magazine that is where The Beatles could hang out and no one bothered them and I believed it."
When they arrived in London Janice, who was Janice Hawkins at the time, started to go to clubs in Soho where she met an "incredibly good-looking boy" called Mick who was from Liverpool.
Janice said: "He and I just hit it off and he was the coolest looking boy I ever saw, wearing all black and gold medallions against his black turtle neck.
"He had curly, blondish hair, curled into a curl that kind of fell on his forehead, black boots and smoking a cigarette - not in a typical way, but using his thumb and forefinger he would hold his cigarette smoking."
The couple also hitchhiked to Liverpool for a short stay and Janice was able to visit the outside of the Cavern Club on Mathew Street before quickly having to get a ride back to London.
However, unbeknown to Janice and her friend there was an international manhunt going on to try and locate the teens as they had been reported missing from home.
It was on October 7, 1964, on Oxford Street in London that Mick and Janice were stopped by an officer as they did some sightseeing.
Janice was questioned by police about her time in England and believes this is when Mick slipped out of the station.
This was the last time she saw him.
Janice and Martha were taken to the U.S embassy and had to go back to Cleveland.
The 73-year-old said he kept thinking about Mick, who's surname Janice can't recall, and was heartbroken they had to be separated.
But Janice got to speak to Mick one last time.
She said: "I was back home now and I kept thinking about Mick and my heart was broken that we had to be separated.
"But I had a phone number for the man who was his friend or manager.
"I wasn't able to use the phone at home. I was now going back to school where I was forbidden to speak about my adventure and I found a way to use a phone booth to make a call.
"And I was able to speak to Mick rather quickly because it was a collect call and I felt guilty about that, but he said it was OK.
"And he was actually not mad at all, so he wanted to know when I was coming back.
"That was our last conversation."
Janice said he wasn't able to return to England and see Mick because her "life changed dramatically going forward" and there were "many restrictions" at home.
Janice now hopes she can reunite with Mick or find out what happened when she returns for Beatles Week 2022 at the end of August.
She added: "I have always relived what we had and always wondered what happened to him.
"I always had the hope, one day, somehow especially through my book that maybe somebody over there might say 'wait I remember that' and I know Mick and John from Liverpool.
"John was his good friend."
Mick was a working musician with a manager named Tony, he had dark blond hair and blue eyes and smoked Woodbine cigarettes.
Janice has written a book about her experience called My Ticket to Ride which documents everything that happened during her stay in England.
