Elizabeth Smart
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Our backyard wasn't fenced.
It was just open.
It ran into the neighbor's yard, ran into a vacant lot.
We went up through the vacant lot.
There were some bushes.
He pushed me down behind the bushes.
And I remember some headlights coming down the street.
I immediately started thinking, this is the getaway car.
He's going to take me in the getaway car.
I'm never going to get away.
No one's ever going to find me.
But this car, it didn't stop and it actually passed right in front of us.
But I remember seeing the word police written alongside the car.
And for like that half a second, I was like, oh, it's going to be fine.
Everything's going to be fine.
The police are going to get out.
They're going to rescue me.
It's like it's going to be just fine.
Like I don't have to worry about anything anymore.
But it didn't stop.