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Abducted in Plain Sight

A teacher of mine often said: "Actions reveal character. Actions do not determine character. Two people can get hit by a bus: One will become an embittered shut-in, and the other will remain the life of the party, always. You determine whether or not you are the person you want to be, every day, until you die." It's hard not to think of these words when you watch "Abducted in Plain Sight," the buzzy new Netflix documentary. A little girl--in the seventies, in a small town--is repeatedly molested by her neighbor. She is then abducted by that neighbor. After a harrowing ordeal, she is returned, but *her mother then sends her out again to be adducted, a second time, by the same neighbor* .... All of this is remarkable--but what's extraordinary is the way the little girl picks herself back up. In adolescence, she endures physical assault and the belief that the world will end if she does not get pregnant. (This belief is planted in her head by ...