It has been quite the week. All kinds of weird, and wonderful things going on at the moment.
I did manage to slip a couple of books in as well!
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.
For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse.
For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.
On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I don’t think of myself as a victim. I survived.
A Stolen Life is my story—in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.
This is a quick, powerful read. She captured everyting with such detail. I especially found the begginning so touching, because she can remember what it felt like to be a child before she was taken. She thought, and acted like a child, and in a few short hours, it was all gone.
It isn't easy to read, and is quite sickening in parts. It makes you want to hit that awful man.
What a brave young lady.
I've never really felt comfortable reading books like that, I guess I just want light entertainment.
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