I have been Free and Safe for eleven years, and yes, you may applaud! Instead of wasting my remaining years in hatred, sitting alone and bemoaning my fate - and I was beaten savagely, shot, stabbed, strangled and suffocated, and then there was the spitting in my face, humiliation, rape and other psychological wounds -I have slowly rebuilt my life.

Yes, I believe in an higher power. No, I do not attribute my recovery to being