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Katie lived in Long Island, NY during her childhood, which is the key focus of her memoir. Katie gets kidnapped and is held for 17 days without any outside contact. When she is found she is hesitant to majority of the people she encounters, and experienced atrocious flashbacks from her time in captivity. She is then put into a foster family, which she ends up staying with for the rest of her childhood and until she heads off to college. She held in dreadful parts of her story for years, and took time to partially recover and come to peace with herself before she decided to tell the world what happened to her.

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As an infant and a child, Katie Beers switched between 2 immensely toxic households. One of those households was that of her mother, and the other being her aunt's house. Between both places Katie was abused physically, verbally, and mentally. At the age of 4 Katie was running errands for her mother in the dangerous streets of Long Island. While being at her Aunt's house she'd be sexually abused by the boyfriend of her Aunt Linda. Through all of these hardships Katie finds they made her stronger, and overall helped her survive her kidnapping.

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Katie's Life As a Child/Young Adult After Her Kidnapping

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Katie's Life As a Child/Young Adult After Her Kidnapping

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From the traumatic experiences Katie was put through in her early-mid childhood, she developed trust issues and social hinderances. She'd be skeptical to men she encountered, and would be slow to create relationships with new people. Once her life had a more-so "routine" to it, Katie was enrolled in high school. She'd later attend college and raise a family of her own. When she was ready to share her whole story (aspects of her story would "randomly" return to memory) she wrote "Buried Memories" with Carolynn Gusoff.

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Being someone who gets drawn in by historical plots and real events, the nature of this book was one that I was intrigued by. The narrative is captivating, as it is a dual-narrative between Katie Beers (kidnap victim) and Carolynn Gusoff (the woman who was in charge of Katie's case when it first emerged). Unfolding the events that took place simultaneously made this read even more fascinating. It was genuinely hard to put this book down and I was excited to read more of it as I progressed through. Those aspects are why I highly recommend this book, because it is easily at the top of the list in terms of books I've read.

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"The truth is he was a big fat liar. He should go to jail for as long as he can. I know he is guilty of a lot more things" (Beers, 153).

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"I suddenly felt a sense of relief-as well as sadness. It hit me hard that he was dead, he would never be granted parole!...The world lost a monster, but the Espositos lost a brother, an uncle, a friend" (Beers, 285).

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'"I love you, too, Katie. That's why you're here. I took you to protect you," he said' (Beers, 61).

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The Horrifying Day Before Her 10th Birthday

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The Horrifying Day Before Her 10th Birthday

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John Esposito, one of Katie's family friends, offered to take her to an arcade nearby to celebrate her 10th birthday. Instead, he would inconspicuously kidnap her and hold her in a makeshift 6ftx7ft dungeon underneath a 200 pound slab of concrete, for 17 days.