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Dugard, Jaycee Lee. Freedom: My Book of Firsts. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2017.

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Jaycee being captured for many years the only food she knew was McDonalds and Burger King. when she was finally free and was introduced to Rebecca's husband a chef she learned alot about food and all the different aspects of it this was a big moment for her.

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After she successfully bought a house she decided to throw a house warming party where her friends gave her a surprise scavenger hunt that lead to her new house they surprised her with. She talks about how she cried alto during the house warming party and how she is so happy to have her new house.

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"my very own horse. Wow! I couldn't believe all my friends and family got together and brought me my very own first horse" (49)

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When she first took the test she felt like it was dream-like, and that she botched the hand signals. when first learning to drive she felt nervous but joyful at the same time. learning to drive helped her feel like she was an actual adult with freedom. but she felt uneasy and like she would get in trouble for being in the car.

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When it came to Jaycee wanting a puppy she wanted one that was playful but also protective. When she finally found a good puppy and went to go pick it up she was followed by the news.

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Jaycee talks bout how she thought it would be so easy to train a puppy and to make it obey you. But she learned that that was clearly very false because she had such a hard time training her puppy. thought she says she learned that she must adjust to him and teach him in a way that he will actually learn.

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Jaycee Dugard talks about how exercise is an important part of her day to day life because she says that it made her more confident and made her feel better. plus it helped her feel like she overcame something on a day to day basis.

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"it helped a whole lot in my confidence to try new things and not to care what I look like." (84)

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Jaycee Dugard talks about how she went on TV for the first time, she says she was very nervous and scared to show that she was nervous. but she does talk about how it now seems silly that she was scared to be nervous.

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Jaycee Dugard on Hopes for Her Daughters

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ABC News' Diane Sawyer spoke with Dugard about the lessons she has learned from being held captive for 18 years and then freed.

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When Jaycee got pulled over for the first time she panicked. Because she was mildly famous she was allowed to not have her real address on her licence causing the officers to ask her a lot of questions. they had told her to pull to the side causing her to think she messed up. later on the officers noticed there mistake and allowed her to go on her way

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Jaycee talks about how she is open to dating but has her expectations set very high. thought she says that she wish she gave the boy who asked her out when she was 9 a chance.

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"so unless you ride a beautiful white stallion, can stand with me to slay dragons and make me your princess you are pretty much out of luck" (110)

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Jaycee Dugard talks about her experience going on a plane by herself. how it was kind of stressful and how she panicked when they had postponed her flight. She said it was more stressful alone then with a buddy.

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Jaycee was invited by a famous designer Diane Von Furstenburg to receive a most inspirational award that was presented to her by Oprah. Jaycee said she felt like she did not really deserve it but she thought the whole experience was wonderful

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"she said she was honored to be introducing me the award that year" (71)

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Oprah, Jaycee Dugard honored at DVF awards

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The annual awards recognize women who are courageous and fight for justice.

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Jaycee talks about when she heard about the Cleveland girls and thinking about how that made her remember all of her traumatic events and made her think what went threw Philips mind (Philip was her kidnapper)

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Jaycee Dugard says that when people recognize her she tends to feel awkward especially because one time a couple had asked for a picture with her when she was with her mom.

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"oh no! I thought they wanted a picture with me. how embarrassing" (120)

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Jaycee talks about having a friend that she refers to as looking like "Barbie". She talks about when being around her friend "Barbie" they tend to get treated nicer and get access to much more than without her. Thought she does not see her friend in a negative light the contrary actually she sees this ads her friends "superpower"

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Jaycee talks about struggling to feel pretty witch everyone goes through, hers is different she talks about how sometimes she feels afraid to get dressed up due to her trauma of Phillip forcing her to dress up for his own pleasure. Though she does sometimes like to feel pretty, it's still hard.

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"I learned i need to accept the good and bad" (121)

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Due to them being kept captive for most of their life they don't really believe in Santa Claus for obvious reasons. They also don't think of Christmas as a receiving but more of a giving day.

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" I want to believe that the true meaning of Christmas not receiving but it is in the giving" (134)

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Jaycee had gone to Ireland to go to a concert but when she arrived in Ireland she had just fount out that the concert was canceled causing her to instead change plans and decide to make the most of it.

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" I will always remember so much about this trip and the amazing nice people we met" (148)

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She wanted to go help out in the Monkey river project which wanted to help rebuild the homes that were destroyed in a hurricane. She also took the opportunity to explore the Island.

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"On this particular trip the goal was to help clean up the teacher's house" (159)

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Many days she finds it hard to believe that she was not there to watch her little sister grow up. She feels like apart of her was so robbed of that of watching her sister go to prom . she also hates that she was not there to take her big sister role

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" There were so many days in my sisters life that i wanted to be there for, in fact i should have been there" (201)

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She talks about how she chooses not to be angry at Philip and Nancy because she refuses to let me consume one more minute of her life. She says she feels more anger towards the government for not searching hard enough for her.