Elizabeth Smart: 'I was broken beyond repair'

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By Tracy Jarrett, NBC News
Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart says she survived her nine-month ordeal and ultimately aided her own rescue by following her captors’ orders and manipulating them into bringing her closer to home.
“Things that I'd always told myself I'd never do, I would do them if it meant I would survive. If it meant that one day I would be able to go back home and be with my family again, I would do it,” she said during an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Meredith Vieira.
Smart was 14 years old when she was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City bedroom in the early morning hours of June 5, 2002. Her abductor, religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell, forced her to hike up the mountainside behind her home for hours until they reached a makeshift campsite.
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This gal is tough !!! Reading this it is not unlike POW survival stories.

[Jim]

I heard her on NPR this afternoon. A very tough woman. Agree on the POW survivor point!