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" When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are. "

Ingrid Betancourt

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Ingrid Betancourt

Will

Vengeance

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Leave

Behind

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Ingrid Betancourt

Political

Everyone

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Holy

Father

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