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Amanda Lindhout

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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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    A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

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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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    Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

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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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    Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

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    Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

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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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    Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

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    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.

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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 have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

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    I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

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    In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

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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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    I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.

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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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    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.

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    I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

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    Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

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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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    We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.

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    Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

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    By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.

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    In my mind, I built stairways. At the end of the stairways, I imagined rooms. These were high, airy places with big windows and a cool breeze moving through. I imagined one room opening brightly onto another room until I'd built a house, a place with hallways and more staircases. I built many houses, one after another, and those gave rise to a city -- a calm, sparkling city near the ocean, a place like Vancouver. I put myself there, and that's where I lived, in the wide-open sky of my mind. I made friends and read books and went running on a footpath in a jewel-green park along the harbour. I ate pancakes drizzled in syrup and took baths and watched sunlight pour through trees. This wasn't longing, and it wasn't insanity. It was relief. It got me through.

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    It is an obvious fact that you can never look ahead with clarity at your own future or anybody else's. You can't know what will happen until it happens. Or maybe it dawns on you the split second before, when you get a glimpse of your own fate.

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    It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it.

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    Something happens when you are alone most of the time, when there are no distractions. Your mind grows more powerful--muscular, even. It takes over and starts to carry you.