Elizabeth Smart
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Yeah, he kept on questioning me.
He started saying, you know, there's a girl.
She's been gone now for a long time.
Her family's never given up hope.
Don't you want to go home?
I mean, of course I wanted to go home.
Of course I wanted to be back with my family.
But everything that had happened was so extreme.
Yeah, he is like, are you Elizabeth Smart?
Because on one hand, my captors, once we were in the camp, they didn't speak with you, yours.
It was always like thee, thy, thine.
how much my captors could hear from where I was at.
So I felt like I couldn't just say, yes, I'm Elizabeth Smart, because also they had given me a whole different name while I was with them.
I was told, you're not allowed to speak about your past.
Your name's not Elizabeth.
They had tried to strip me of my identity, everything.
And so when the police officer said, you know, are you Elizabeth Smart?
I just felt like I had to speak the way that I had been