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It is something that will stay with me forever. It is just hearing all that air being squished out of my body.

Real people.

First thing he said was that he would kill me if I didn't do what he told me to do, and

I was very convinced that would be the case.

Who faced death?

When I heard the plastic tarp come down through the companion way toward me,

my heart just felt like lead was poured into it.

And live to tell how.

There's blood going everywhere.

It's squirting everywhere.

I can feel it. I can, it's sticky. I can even smell it.

This is I survived.

It's July 2009 in Orangeville, Canada.

Lenore takes a part-time job in a ladies' clothing store.

This Saturday was my first full Saturday, my first day I was going to be all alone.

There was a convenience store, a couple of doors down, and there was a water store that was right next door to the shop that I was working at.

I thought it was a safe place to be. At 1.30 p.m., a man entered the store.

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