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America was transfixed by the story of Ashley Smith, the Atlanta woman who got Brian Nichols, the murderous fugitive who had taken her hostage, to calm down, let her go, and ultimately give himself up.(Brief article)

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America was transfixed by the story of Ashley Smith, the Atlanta woman who got Brian Nichols, the murderous fugitive who had taken her hostage, to calm down, let her go, and ultimately give himself up. Smith accomplished this by talking about her daughter, by reading from Rick Warren's The Purpose-Driven Life, a Christian guide to living, and by telling Nichols that his survival was a "miracle." "You need to be caught for this," Smith said. "You need to go to prison and you need to share the word of God." Nichols's survival was a strange miracle. Judge ...

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