People who survived an attack on their lives. What's your story? I was outside in my garage

petting my cat. It was November, so it was already dark by 5pm. Someone opened the door

behind me without me hearing, grabbed me by my ponytail and started dragging me outside.

They hit me on the head with a brick and knocked me out. Pulled me halfway around my house,

I'm guessing this is when they stabbed me on the left side of my stomach.

This must have brought me out of the days because my mum said she heard me scream from inside,

where she and my brother and sister were in the kitchen.

They came out the front door and saw me bleeding out on the sidewalk and called 911.

I had 12 stitches, double layer, a severe concussion and whiplash. I didn't eat and

hardly slept for a week. They never found them. I was riding a train across Eastern Europe. I was

running low on money, and even though I'd been warned that a woman should not travel alone in second

class seating, I didn't spring for first class. I was sitting alone in one of the

compartments that seats six. This was also a mistake and a very stupid one to sit alone. Eventually,

the train stopped and a man got on. He was very drunk. He came into my compartment and I guess

he thought that I looked like his ex-wife. He attacked me. If it weren't for the fact that this

particular station

was at the border between two countries, I'd be dead. Instead, border patrol from both countries

were on the train, and while I was unable to scream, the door was open, and at least a half-dozen

uniformed men jumped in and saved me. I was in the hospital for a bit, but I recovered. At one

point during the trial, one of the cops

asked me if I wanted him and his buddies to hold down the guy while I hit him. I thought he was

joking, so I said, no, go ahead, you do it. I was also joking, but it turns out they took it seriously

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