Elizabeth Smart
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How did they just know that?
frosting and dough.
Like, I can't do that on my best day.
And also because I have so many people disclose abuse to me who have never disclosed it to anyone else, that at the end of the day, I don't want, I need to find a balance in my life as much as I can.
And so I don't typically watch whether they're documentaries or movies or shows that kind of go into that world just because I need to be able to sleep at night.
And I don't want to live in fear.
So I have so much respect for these people, whether they're police officers or FBI agents or they're advocates who work at advocacy centers or therapists or forensic psychologists or like these nurses who do these rape kits who keep coming back day after day after day after seeing heartbreak and tragedy and just the worst side of humanity.
And yet they keep coming back and there's still these good people trying to make money.
difference in the world.
So for that reason alone, I mean, I have the greatest respect and admiration for them.
And I think that's really like admirable of you because, again, someone in your position, I think you had the right to be bitter if you want.
You had the right to be angry, but to choose not to be, I think, is something really special.
You know, and like you said, people aren't getting into law enforcement to make money.
Most of them have the best of intentions and they know their job, right?
They know their role when a kid goes missing or when something happens, someone is assaulted.
They know what they're supposed to do.
One of the things that I really struggled with in
You know, learning about your story, a question that I don't have an answer to still, and I don't know if you have any thoughts on it, is more, is civilians' responsibility.