Elizabeth Smart

It kept going.

And as soon as it was around the corner, he had me running across the street and up into the mountains behind my home.

And I mean, truthfully, I don't think I've ever prayed so hard in my entire life as he was running me up into the mountains.

And I didn't actually realize how far we had run up into the mountains till much later.

I think I was just so pumped full of adrenaline and fear that I just, I mean, time,

almost seemed to stop but yet the sky was starting to get lighter and the sun was coming up right as we topped over the top of this mountain and started down the other side and we came to this stand of trees and this woman walked out of the tent

Well, because in the middle of the trees, the stand of trees, there's a tent set up.

There were some tarps lying on the ground.

This woman walked out.

She was dressed different.

She looked different than really anyone I'd ever seen before.

And she came up to me and she hugged me and she brought me inside of the tent where she proceeded to start to undress me and sponge bathe me.

And just, I mean, I was shy.

I was, I was a wallflower.

Like I was very self-conscious and,

When you first saw her, like, was there a moment?

I'm thinking about me as a 14 year old girl, like a man would have terrified me.

But was there a moment when you saw her where you're like, oh, maybe this isn't going to be so bad?

Like, maybe this woman would help you like as a young girl?

Or were you just as scared of her?