Jaycee Lee Dugard

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Jaycee Lee Dugard was a nine year old girl who was kidnapped by a stranger at age eleven. Phillip Garrido was the mans name. She was kept captive for eighteen years, kept in a backyard moving from a barn, to a house, different rooms. Being so young and taken would be the worst, not getting to be with her family. Phillip had a wife named Nancy, they treated Jaycee like their daughter. Jaycee later on got pregnant two times. She now has two beautiful baby girls that are growing up with her. While Jaycee was taken she has been thinking about her old family, if they still were looking for her, if they still cared about her. “John 1:1, wisdom was created before everything”, means God is living in our lives, shows comfort, loyalty, love and is just …show more content…
Phillip has started to let Jaycee leave the house with him and Nancy, she looks so different after having babies, that is why he lets her go places with them because they will not recognize her. Jaycee has started to help Phillip out with his company they all have started to become there own little family. She doesn't like it but she is dealing with it all. She has had multiple pets that have passed away, it hurts her so she writes in a journal about everything. Jaycee’s real family lives in Tahoe, her mom is a divorced woman, then got together with a man named Carl, moved in with him in Tahoe. Jaycee never met her real father, he left her mom and never returned, she has been wondering if she would ever get the chance to meet him, her mom says that the reason why she hasn't met him is because he doesn't want to meet her. “ If I had one wish” means what would you do if you had that one last wish. (Pg. 2) She would want to meet her father later on when she grew older. Her dad finally reached out to her mom and said he wanted to meet Jaycee, but Jaycee is not prepared for

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