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    Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
    Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
    Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
    Audiobook7 hours

    Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

    Written by Michelle Knight and Michelle Burford

    Narrated by Maria Cabezas

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    About this audiobook

    Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken. In Finding Me, Michelle will reveal the heartbreaking details of her story, including the thoughts and prayers that helped her find courage to endure her unimaginable circumstances and now build a life worth living. By sharing both her past and her efforts to create a future, Michelle becomes a voice for the voiceless and a powerful symbol of hope for the thousands of children and young adults who go missing every year.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9781490618661
    Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
    Author

    Michelle Knight

    Michelle Knight, now known as Lily Rose Lee, is an author, activist, speaker, and a survivor living in Cleveland, Ohio. Lily is passionate about inspiring others and now spends most of her time helping animals and volunteering at local shelters, creating art, and advocating for change to ensure others are safe from the experience she has overcome. lilyroselee.com @iMichelleKnight

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    • 5/5
      What a strong, beautiful soul Ms Knight has...she went through hell and back but somehow emerged through the unfathomable with the grace of a butterfly.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A vividly told account of her time held in captivity. Really well written. She definitely has talent as a writer.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent biography and writing. You can feel the emotions coming through the words
    • 5/5
      This took alot of strength to write ,what an amazing story of Perseverance and never giving up.
    • 5/5
      Wow, this book was INTENSE. I take in a lot of true-crime content, so I'm pretty used to the horrors of this world, but this book really shook me up. I don't usually cry when I take in this type of content, but I cried reading this. Poor Michelle. She has been through absolute hell and so have the other two girls. This was an absolute nightmare of an experience and I applaud Michelle for sharing her story, because I know that couldn't have been easy. Definitely worth the read. Her story deserves to be heard.
    • 5/5
      Very hard book to read as it's so vivid. She seems like she has tremendous strength to rebuild her life after what happened to her.
    • 5/5
      Amazing lady. I wish her much happiness. Very well written.
    • 5/5
      I think she’s all right forgiving loving and very caring even though she didn’t do all of that that make me love this book Even more because it is a true story nothing that I can see I can’t even understand the pain and suffering she went through stay strong I love you ?????
    • 5/5
      This was a very well written book that I couldn’t put down!!!! Yes I had read a different book about this case however I still really enjoyed the story line from a different survivor’s perspective!!!
    • 5/5
      Such a heartbreaking story! I felt every emotion and even found myself weeping for them. Michelle you are incredibly strong to not only share your story, but to rise and live afterward.
    • 5/5
      Defining portrayal of strength and recovery from apparent hopelessness. An inspiration to anyone who has ever thought about giving up.
    • 5/5
      Very moving. Could not stop listening. Good for you Michelle. Keep on living