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A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard, was published in 2012 from Simon and Schuster and is nonfiction. Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped when she was eleven years old and held prisoner in a backyard for eighteen years. Later Jaycee has kids with the stranger who kidnapped her and learns more about her intern self. In this book, Jaycee, Phillip and Nancy are the main characters. Phillip was the stranger who kidnapped her and Nancy is Philip's wife. Jaycee was very young with blonde hair. She was a mommys girl before she kidnapped and always had a smile on her face. Nancy was very sweet but odd, she would take care of Jaycee when Phillip wasn’t there. Phillip was very old and was already on probation for rape. He used Jaycee as pleasure, he explained to her that she was sent from heaven to meet his needs. …show more content…

As her house she lived in the backyard in a tent. During those years she found her inner self and became to realize she would never get out. Years later Philip grew found of her and would let her inside the house as a normal person. Soon Jaycee gets pregnant with her first child, then a little after she gets pregnant with another child, they both turned out to be girls. Phillip would take the girls out to the park as if nothing has ever happened, take them out to eat as well. Towards the end of the book Phillip got sick and tired of the probation officer coming to his house so he went to the police station with every one of them and confessed everything about kidnapping her and keeping her

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