A Stolen Life A Memoir

Jaycee Dugard

eBook - 2011

In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I don't think of myself as a victim. I survived.A Stolen Life is my story—in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.—-The pine cone is a symbol that represents the seed of a new beginning for me. To help facilitate new beginnings, with the support of ...animal-assisted therapy, the J A Y C Foundation provides support and services for the timely treatment of families recovering from abduction and the aftermath of traumatic experiences—families like my own... more