alone with my own thoughts and my mind. amanda s mind ran wild. she feared she would be raped. then one day a captor entered her room. it turns out your fears were justified? he did cross that line and my worst fears were realized. and my whole experience in captivity really changed. somehow, she held on and then one night amanda was jostled awake and driven out into the desert alone. what happened next was terrifying. they brought me over to an acacia tree. had me kneel. my head was pulled back and there was a serrated knife. the ruthless kidnappers told a desperate ayman dark, she only had three minutes to plead for her life, with her traumatized mother on the other end of the call. if you guys don t pay $1
and my whole experience in captivity really changed. locked in that room, a simple act gave amanda strength. i would just walk in circles in this room that i was held in. i would walk with the dreams of the life that i hoped one day i would be able to go on and live. and that s what helped pull my out of the slump that i went into immediately after abdullah started paying those first visits to my room. then one night in the fourth month of captivity she was jostled awake and driven out to the desert alone. what happened next was terrifying. they had brought me over to an acacia tree. they had me kneel. my head is pulled back. and then there was a serrated knife. i can t imagine the horror you must have been feeling. so many times in those first months, i had feared that my head would be cut off, because
he, he did cross that line, and my worst fears were realized. and my whole experience in captivity really changed. locked in that room, a simple act gave amanda strength. i would just walk in circles in this room that i was held in. i would walk with the dreams of the life that i hoped one day i would be able to go on and live. and that s what helped pull my out of the slump that i went into immediately after abdullah started paying those first visits to my room. then one night in the fourth month of captivity she was jostled awake and driven out to the desert alone. what happened next was terrifying. they had brought me over to an acacia tree. they had me kneel. my head is pulled back. and then there was a serrated knife. i can t imagine the horror
locked in that room, a simple act gave amanda strength. i would just walk in circles in this room that i was held in. i would walk with the dreams of the life that i hoped one day i would be able to go on and live. and that s what helped pull my out of the slump that i went into immediately after abdullah started paying those first visits to my room. then one night in the fourth month of captivity she was jostled awake and driven out to the desert alone. what happened next was terrifying. they had brought me over to an acacia tree. they had me kneel. my hid is pulled back. and then there was a serrated knife. i can t imagine the horror you must have been feeling. so many times in those first months, i had feared that my