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One night, when Latifah and Tina were on board the Yot Nostromo, a few days after their escape from Dubai,

the sea grew calmer.

The two of them were out on deck.

They had on hoodies against the chill,

and they were looking at the sky.

You can see all the stars, it was beautiful.

Uh-huh.

And you could obviously see the light on the waves as well.

So it was really, really beautiful. And Lativa suggested that they stay out there all night instead of going down to their cabin.

She wanted to like sleep on outside on like the top deck of the boat and she was like oh you know I want to be doing things like this in the future as well, you know.

But Tina told her, oh, come on, it's cold.

It will be more comfortable in our beds.

You'll have plenty of opportunities to do things like this now.

So they went down to their cabin.

It sounds like maybe you regret that a bit now. Is that something?

Yeah, a little bit. I was like, yes, you know, I should have done it because, because you know obviously it's the same like anything in life you know sometimes certain

opportunities just come once and I don't like just to do it rather than regret not having done something, right? You're listening to the runaway princesses from in the dark and the New Yorker.

It's a story of why women in Dubai's royal family keep trying to run away.

And what happens to them when they do.

I'm Madeline Barron.

This is episode three, a nice lunch.

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