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"I was abducted and stuffed into a car trunk": when an ex-con targeted Shannon Haight, he didn't expect her to fight back. But while trapped in his speeding vehicle, she found strength she didn't know she had.(Real-Life Reads)

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| April 01, 2004 | Welch, Liz | COPYRIGHT 2004 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

* I grew up in rural Oklahoma and have never had reason to be suspicious of anyone--until one morning last fall, when my world chained forever.

Before then, I never imagined strangers preyed on women in broad daylight in the safety of a small town ... and I certainly never thought that I'd actually be one of those abducted women that you read about in the newspaper. The difference between so many other kidnapped women and me is that I, miraculously, was able to get away.

UNEXPECTED COMPANY

It all happened last year, on Friday, September 19. I arrived at work early that morning. I'm a microbiologist for a meatpacking plant in the close-knit ...

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