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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.

~Amanda Lindhout

Topics: About Always Day Dreamed Easy Focusing Long Moments One Day One Day At A Time Recovery Road Take Time Will

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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.

~Amanda Lindhout

Topics: Big-Time Company Crisis Generally Had Help Hostage Insurance Journalists Kidnapping Most Negotiate News None Often Organizations Pay Release Response Through Would

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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.

~Amanda Lindhout

Topics: Because Being Being Done Body Book Could Darkest Done Find Go Had House How Life Live Lived Mind Place Reflect Safe Safe Place Sky Still Survived Times Very Violence Wanted Where

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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.

~Amanda Lindhout

Topics: Always Character Darkest Days Despite Even Extreme Find Friend Gentlemen Good Good Friend Hardship He His Inspired Just Me Midst Must Opposite Our Remind Separation Small Strength Surrounded Thank Ways World

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I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

~Amanda Lindhout

Topics: Beautiful Beautiful Place Extremely Forgot Never Ordeal Outside Place Through Trying World

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The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

~Amanda Lindhout

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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

~Amanda Lindhout

Topics: Capacity Enormous Human Human Spirit Inside Spirit Survive Think To Survive Us I Think

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Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

~Amanda Lindhout

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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.

~Amanda Lindhout

Topics: About Agony Also Canadian Caught Family Father Further Governments Hard Husband Including Line Maintaining Many Mother Payments Powerless Provide Standing Still Support Telling Terrorism Through Try While Wife

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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.

~Amanda Lindhout

Topics: Arms Backward Bars Fall Forward Give Ground Knowing Like Me Momentum Monkey My Own Next Out Own Place Point Set Some Sometimes While World Would

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Journalist

Born: June 12th, 1981

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