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Elizabeth Smart on learning and growing from her abduction

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

“It is important to remember that just because something bad happens to you, it doesn’t mean you are bad. You are still entitled to every possible happiness in life.”
Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted and imprisoned in 2002, is now a 20-year-old music major at Brigham Young University.
A drifter named Brian David Mitchell kidnapped Elizabeth, then [...]

Evelyn Espinoza Wins Youth Business Plan Competition

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

From news article, Los Angeles Times :
Photo: Evelyn Espinoza, 17, reacts as she is named winner of Merrill Lynch/NFTE Greater Los Angeles Regional Youth Business Plan Competition, by Garrett Gin, right, Director Communications and Public Affairs, Merrill Lynch & Co.
When she was 8 years old, Evelyn Espinoza sold bubble gum and other candy door-to-door in [...]