'I Was Abducted'

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Technology, Reddit

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Monique has always known she was abducted as a child, but specific details about what happened, and why, have been elusive. It wasn’t until she posted to Reddit that she found real leads and painful memories started flooding back.

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0:00.0	Just a quick heads up, this episode contains accounts of childhood trauma and attempted suicide.
0:06.4	If you'd prefer to skip that, check out another episode from our archives.
0:11.4	Produced by the iLap at WBUR Boston.
0:16.0	I always knew about the kidnapping.
0:21.7	I always knew that it happened to me.
0:24.1	I would have like really vivid dreams.
0:27.3	I would have like anxiety about going to the beach.
0:30.6	I hated the beach.
0:32.6	Just certain triggers that would just remind me of my kidnapping.
0:44.4	This is Monique.
0:45.8	I was born in Oxnard, California.
0:49.1	I do attend a community college out here.
0:52.7	And I do a lot of odd jobs just to kind of provide for myself.
0:58.6	Monique is 20.
0:59.9	She's a student.
1:00.9	She's got a boyfriend.
1:02.3	She works odd jobs to make ends meet.
1:04.5	Every day, she wakes up at 6 or 6.30 in the morning.
1:07.7	She goes to class.
1:08.7	She gets out at 3.
1:09.9	She works on homework or takes a nap.
1:11.8	Then she goes to work one of her part-time jobs at 6 pm and tell about 11.
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