This monster stole so much more than time from this woman and yet she has accepted her lot with grace. Life isn't fair, and she never really expected it to be. It was so difficult to listen to at times, yet, I learned something from this remarkable young woman by the end. Life dealt her one hell of a bad hand, but she doesn't complain-in fact, she possesses incredible selflessness and maturity as the reader will see in the end. Incredibly, this woman shows a remarkable resilience and strength that almost anyone would have to admire. And her son, the one thing that kept her alive, was no longer hers. Her younger twin brothers were the only ones she saw or cared to see and after seeing them, she was left, at 31, to recover the pieces of a stolen life, alone. Michelle had no homecoming because she had no home. The most heart wrenching piece of this story is that the happy ending for Michelle wasn't like it was for the other girls in Castro's prison, nor was it anything like Dupree or Amanda Smart experienced. Ariel Castro was only capable of brief interludes of humanity but, sadly, even those stopped coming after he kidnapped his next victim. In the Dupree story, where the girl was held captive from age eleven to 29 years old, the abductor had an occasional bout of conscience which only brought on an almost (but not quite) Stockholm Syndrome situation. The next eleven years was a horror movie more terrifying than anything Hollywood could produce. Michelle was trying in earnest to get to a visitation with her son, when she took a ride from the father of her friend. It's hard to imagine how she could have survived the eleven years that followed. This young woman had suffered enough for a lifetime even before she was was taken by Ariel Castro. The only light in her dark life was her son, who had been taken from her after the child was attacked and injured by a family member. Michelle's childhood was one that was marred by neglect and brutal sexual abuse at the hands of her own family members. The life that was interrupted was not the idyllic world of Amanda Smart, or even the less than perfect (but stable) world of Jayce Dupree. What makes this story stand out is the author's ability to count her blessings and find joy in a life that has been so incredibly cruel. Finding Me is the story of Michelle Knight's abduction and captivity at the hands of a true madman. Having read the horrifying experiences of Amanda Smart and Jayce Dupree, I really didn't think that anything would surprise me that much.
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