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Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.
Amanda Lindhout
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Born:
June 12
, 1981
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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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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.
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Help
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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.
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Life
Death
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War
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.
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My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians.
Amanda Lindhout
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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.
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World
Sometimes
Fall
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.
Amanda Lindhout
Freedom
You
Words
Free
The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.
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You have a responsibility to move your dreams forward, no matter what.
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Dreams
You
Responsibility
Your Dreams
I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.
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World
Beautiful Place
Place
With awareness come responsibility and choice.
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Choice
Awareness
Come
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
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Home
You
Pain
Sometimes it's nice for people not to know anything about me.
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People
Sometimes
Nice
Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
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