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SAN FRANCISCO — Jaycee Dugard, the California woman kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for nearly two decades, talked through tears about both the pain and determination she felt as she gave birth to her captor's child in his backyard while she was still just a girl.
Jaycee Dugard Describes 18 Years Of Captivity In First Interview The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Whitaker once told another newspaper that he had escaped a POW camp by chewing through his captor's neck.
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It is hell, and through the power struggle it depicts, it inherently intoxicates us with both the captor's sense of absolute power and the captive's will to ultimately escape.
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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SAN FRANCISCO — Jaycee Dugard, the California woman kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for nearly two decades, talked through tears about both the pain and determination she felt as she gave birth to her captor's child in his backyard while she was still just a girl.
Jaycee Dugard Describes 18 Years Of Captivity In First Interview The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Several of our captor's saw this and started to laugh at me.
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It is hell, and through the power struggle it depicts, it inherently intoxicates us with both the captor's sense of absolute power and the captive's will to ultimately escape.
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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Out through the port he saw only the swirling green stickiness of the digestive juices of their captor's interior.
Archive 2010-03-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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His captor's interests-whether political, military, or social-did not promote prisoner welfare.
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The special privileges extended by captors at these camps were designed to recruit men from dissident minority nationalities, most from subjected colonial peoples, and persuade them to switch their allegiance in pursuit of the captor's political goals.
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On the rare occasions that we've killed and eaten a fish, it's been the captor's decision, not mine.
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