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‘In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.

For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name, I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.

On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I don’t think of myself as a victim. I survived. A Stolen Life is my story - in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.

 Book Review:

This book was on my wish list, because I watched a documentary on Jaycee’s kidnapping. It interviewed her extended family, and her childhood friends, but I wanted to hear her story using her own words.

I did struggle to read this book, because of the horrors Jaycee had to endure. I felt so angry, so many times, and I just felt so upset that childhood, and her freedom, was taken from her. The book made me feel so many things, but it was more because I know that this was Jaycee’s reality for eighteen years... not because of the writing.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Jaycee’s story is important. It’s about surviving in one of the most horrible situations imaginable. But, the way that she wrote this memoir was not as good as it could have been. I think the book just needed an editor to make things flow. Jaycee would tell her story, but it would jump around. She talked about the day that she was taken, but during that part of the story, she mentioned almost random things like her pets, her extended family, her friends. I think the story needed to be better edited so that Jaycee could have told us about the life before she was taken (so she could insert things like her friends, family etc), and then continue the story chronologically. Parts of the book were also repeated a few times, and it is apparent when you read it. Also, I felt like there was gaps in Jaycee’s story. But I can understand why. Her mind is going to make her forget things, and days would blur together.

Overall, I gave this book 3/5 or 6/10. If I rated in on the subject alone; of Jaycee’s kidnapping, and her survival, I would have given it a 5/5. But I needed to analyse it, rather than just rate it on the topic alone. The writing was alright. Sometimes the book had emotional gravitas, others it was almost tedious. The book gave me a lot of the answers that I wanted, but not all. I did like how she finished the book though. I don’t know if I will read it again, because it was a hard read.  I liked how it was a tale of Jaycee’s strength, and her surviving.

No details at this time, but will post more when I know more.  Quite the project, I must say, to protect other women by making the self available to attackers, this is hardcore community service.

  Will post the video.  Lots more to come.

  Stay tuned.  Be aware of what is happening, all around you.  Be active in event. Take responsibility.  The time for excuses os over, no matter who you are.

More images form the video that scarcely provides clues that will allow you to figure out the content of the video poems, after a video of Jaycee Lee Dugard,  one to whome the prose poems are dedicated

    video still from LFMK

Thylias Rebecca Brasier Moss in a photoshoot by Ansted Candler Moss exploring contanmant vs contained; net as veil; much gets in, much goes out, ideal for interations

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