| Brynn |
07-04-2007 07:21 PM |
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Originally Posted by craig johnston
(Post 351940)
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Thank you cj, for posting this. I've been following this story on a call-in radio program on NPR (BBC's "World Have Your Say") while I work. At some point in each broadcast, people have called in with messages of hope for him ("Alan, you don't know me, but you are loved and thought about, and not forgotten." "Do not give up hope!"). While one part of me joined them in their best hopes for him, another couldn't help but think "Wow, that poor guy's a goner." So since I'm not at work today, I'm just finding out about his release here. :) :) :) What relief!
This bit made me cry with happies:
"He appeared with a cleanly-shaven head, saying one of his first acts after his release was "going to the barbers and getting rid of that just-kidnapped look".
"Maybe you have to have been a prisoner of some kind, for some time, to know how good it is just to be able to do the basic things that freedom allows," he said.
"You want to do everything at the same time, to read books and newspapers, go to the movies, go to the beach and sit in the sun, and eat and talk and all the rest of it."
Anyway, thanks. |
