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Amanda Lindhout
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: June 12
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We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.
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A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
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The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.
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Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
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The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.
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Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
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I know firsthand how critical support systems are.
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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
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Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
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I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.
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Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
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I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.
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After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
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I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
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I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.
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Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.
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Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.
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Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.
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Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
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