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I saw the shadow come up behind me and he grabbed me from behind and he put a knife pressing at my throat. Real people.

The more I pulled it felt like the tighter it was getting on me.

The only way you're going to get loose is to rip your hand off and I go, I don't know if I can do that.

Who faced death.

He went from guilt, I'm sorry, look, to, I'm going to kill you. And live to tell how,

what's going to happen? Am I going to be raped? Am I going to be killed? Is this, is it? This is I survived.

It's July 1996 in Chicago, Illinois.

Angela had just finished high school and was preparing for college.

I was 17 years old, and I had just graduated from high school.

My senior year of high school, I was a homecoming queen.

It was such a, just a great life to feel like your whole world is in front of you.

I was getting ready to go away to college in the fall, and I was working at a shopping mall to pay for my upcoming college expenses.

It was 6.30 on a Saturday evening, and I had gotten off of work early to go to a graduation party.

So I was leaving my job and I was walking

across the parking lot and I love music. I was carrying a CD in my hand and I was singing out

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