Elizabeth Smart

And that was actually really difficult for me.

All of a sudden, everywhere I went, people knew my name.

People were pointing at me, whispering about me, trying to take sneaky pictures of me.

And I had been very shy.

I had been a wallflower and I hated it.

I hated it.

I just wanted to be who I once had been.

So it took me a while to really

Learn to become OK with it.

But my dad, who I mean, I think honestly, from the moment I was taken, he became an advocate.

I mean, he has gone up to our state capitol so many times to lobby and advocate for education.

safety bills for children against rape.

And he, on occasion, would ask me if I wanted to go with him.

And I would always ask him, well, will it really make a difference if I'm there?

And he's like, actually, yeah, because nobody knows better what it's like to experience this than you.

You've experienced it.

You know better than a lot of these legislators, but you've lived it.

You understand it.

So yeah, it will make a difference.

And so little by little, I got