The Girl With No Name

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Марина Чапман. The Girl With No Name

MARINA CHAPMAN. with Vanessa James and Lynne Barrett-Lee. THE GIRL. WITH NO NAME. THE TRUE STORY OF A GIRL WHO LIVED WITH MONKEYS

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A note by Lynne Barrett-Lee

Organisations of interest

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This book is dedicated to Maria Nelly & Amadeo (Forero)

And in memory of loving Maruja

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In 1997, it was estimated that one in three of the world’s abductions happened in Colombia. Sadly, kidnapping is still a regular occurrence. For the past few decades on a Saturday night, there has been a radio show called Las Voces del Secuestro (Voices of Kidnapping), and from midnight until 6 a.m. the phone lines ring continuously with family members wanting to send messages to their loved ones in captivity. It’s heartbreaking.

For those children – for all children who have been affected by other people’s greed, as my mother’s life has – she is living proof that circumstances don’t need to be the end of anyone’s story. In fact, it is her upbringing that has made her into the strong, grateful, loving, generous, selfless, positive – and of course wild and unconventional – woman she is today.

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