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" After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada. "
Canada
Wonderful
Begin
" Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. "
Pain
You
Unique
" Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be. "
Every Day
Who
Want
" For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground. "
Place
My Own
Me
" Forgiving is not an easy thing to do. "
Forgiving
Easy Thing
Thing
" Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it. "
More
People
Think
" I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible. "
Think
Like
Invincible
" I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in. "
Space
Get
Because
" I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite. "
Character
Friend
Good
" I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. "
Human Spirit
Spirit
Survive
" It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free. "
Words
You
Like
" It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment. "
Understanding
Environment
Really
" I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return. "
See
Way
Used
" I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place. "
Beautiful Place
Beautiful
World
" Maintaining my dignity is so important for me. "
Important
Dignity
Me
" Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by. "
Support
Family
Wife
" My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians. "
Support
I Am
Human
" Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told. "
Needed
Important
Somalia
" Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile. "
Work
Me
Day
" The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none. "
Crisis
Help
Insurance
" The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live. "
Live
Sky
Body
" The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do? "
Gift
Greatest
Imagination
" The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long. "
Easy
Day
Time
" War dehumanizes everyone. "
Everyone
War
" What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me. "
Define
Happened
Me
" When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born. "
War
Compassion
Day
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