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- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beautiful Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.
- Captivity
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- Nov 07, 2020
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.
- Every Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.
- Easy Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment.
- Happened
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know firsthand how critical support systems are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.
- General Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
- Bullets
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a woman is taught, she shares with her family.
- Business Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
With awareness come responsibility and choice.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.
- Nov 07, 2020
War dehumanizes everyone.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways - occasionally through a show of guilt or compassion. One of the boys bought me a gift. Another used to sneak me acetaminophen tablets.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.
- Canadian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so proud to be a Canadian.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's nice for people not to know anything about me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me.
- Oppression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020