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On June 10, 1991 in California, a girl named Jayce Dugard was kidnapped at the age of 11 years old. She was abducted while she was walking home from a school bus stop. Jayce was brought to Phillip Gardios house, where he kept her in tents, shed and lean to’s in his own back yard. She endured harsh sexual assault resulting in the birth of two children. This story relates closely to the imprisonment of Ma and Jack. In the book, I have just discovered what has happened to Ma; she was abducted by her college campus. Old Nick desperately needed help with his “dog.” Ma then was drugged and taken to his back yard, where she has been confined for the past 7 years in a shed. Old Nick has repetitively raped her inferring from different quotes. “Beds

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