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[Music] the one thing that's still really bothers me and brings me back I can't see on TV anybody getting
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their throat cut when I see that on television it just almost paralyzes [Music] me
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it was a bright sunny evening in a suburb of Chicago I was working at a shopping mall I was 17 years old and I
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just graduated from high school I was excited to go to a graduation party so I had asked my boss
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if I could get off of work early and uh where we had to park was a lot that was the employee lot across the street and I
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had a CD in my hand is I'm singing out loud and as I'm walking I almost felt like there was somebody behind me and I
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stopped and I turned around and about 10 or 15 ft there was somebody that was following
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me and I glanced around and there was nobody else in the parking lot and a lot of my gut instinct told me to run to get
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away but I I didn't listen and I walked towards my car and I put my key into the
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lock and all of a sudden this Shadow came up to my left and I was grabbed from behind and there was a knife press
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at my throat I offered him the money that was in my purse and he said it's not your
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money that I want and those words just made my stomach drop I was so scared and and his car was parked just a couple of
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steps away from mine and with the knife still held at my throat he threw me into
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his car and he had taken my wrists and used plastic zip ties and bow my hands behind
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my back and he had taken these Band-Aids and put them to conceal my eyes and after he put the Band-Aids over my eyes
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he put sunglasses on my face everything happened so methodically and I knew in my gut that
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this was not his first [Music] crime he started to Drive slowly out of the mall parking lot and he didn't know
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this but I was able to wriggle my hands free and I kept them behind my back and I surveyed the situation he didn't know
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that I could see but I could see down to either side to the left and to the right
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I saw that my seat belt was on the knife was put down at that point and he's got
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both hands on the steering wheel and I thought to myself if I could just get out of the car even if I rolled out if I
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broke a leg or broke my arm at least I'd be free and so I can remember just taking a huge deep breath and trying to
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undo the seat Bel and get out of the car door but he was too fast and he grabbed me by my shirt with
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both hands and he said you try that again [ __ ] and your face won't be so pretty
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anymore that's when I realized that this could potentially be the last day of my
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life that this guy might kill me