Jaycee Dugard, 11, when she was kidnapped...

How do you start your life once again after an 18-year horrendous captivity?

This is the question that comes to mind whenever I come across news articles about Jaycee Lee Dugard, that young girl of 11 abducted by a sex offender as she walked to her school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. She lived in a cluster of sheds and tents for the past 18 years, held captive by Phillip Garrido, her abductor, along with his wife, Nancy.

Her home for the past 18 years.

Jaycee is now 29, with two daughters both fathered by Phillip. Experts are saying that she might have developed Stockholm Syndrome already, having lived that long with her captor. How does she start a normal life now that for almost two decades, “normal life” for her meant a life with Phillip and Nancy with the kids? It would take a long time, lots of therapy sessions before she can start living what’s supposed to be her life had she not been abducted.

I pity her, her kids, and her real family. I could not begin to imagine the pain that they all went through. The pain that Jaycee and her kids are going through now that the truth is being revealed.

I am praying that things will get better for Jaycee and her daughters. And that the Garrido couple will stay in jail forever!

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