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To persevere is to have faith in God.

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Kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart told her story in court for the first time, admitting a mock marriage and daily rape. Ben Tracy reports.

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Elizabeth is reunited with her family after nine months of horror and abuse.

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Minutes after arriving, police surround them and rescue Elizabeth.

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A few months later, Elizabeth manipulates Mitchell into thinking they should all return to Utah.

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Thanksgiving and Christmas come around, and Elizabeth is becoming extremely homesick, wishing she could be spending these joyful holidays with her family eight-hundred miles away.

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They move to a new camp in California, where Elizabeth has no chance of being rescued.

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When they completely ran out of water for days, and Elizabeth thought she might die, she finds a cup of cold water next to her pillow that night. She says that Mitchell and Barzee would never be nice enough to get up in the middle of the night and get her water, so, she says the water came from God.

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Elizabeth heard her uncle calling her name in the middle of the night, but Mitchell threatened, that if she went after him, he would kill both of them with his knife.

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Day by day, she was raped, abused, and told repeatedly she would be killed if she tried to escape.

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Elizabeth was forced to climb up a steep, rough mountain behind their home to a camp, where she was cabled to the trees by her ankle.

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The kidnapper offered to do yard work for Elizabeth's family so he could scout out exactly where she slept to go through with his plan. On November 5, 2002, Elizabeth was abducted from her bedroom in the middle of the night by Brian David Mitchell.

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Hope can help us through the darkest of times.

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Man vs. Man Brian David Mitchell took Elizabeth away from the life she knew, and for the next nine months, made her life miserable.

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Perseverance, Faith and Hope

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Elizabeth and her little sister, Mary Katherine

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Mitchellś wife

She is very cold, unforgiving, jealous, rude, and, at times, a slave to Mitchell.

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"God knew the end from the beginning and there was still hope for me " (132).

"I still had a family. I didn't get to be with them now, but someday I thought I would" (212).

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Kidnapped Elizabeth. He believed he was the prophet of God, and used religion to rationalize the awful abuse he gave to Elizabeth.