What if you foresaw your own abduction?

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Annette Bricca· Guest0:09

My father was raised on the south side of Chicago from a family of Polish descent. My grandparents were really hardworking, decent, fabulous people. My mother got married quite young. She was about twenty years old. My father was twenty-two or twenty-three. My mother had felt like wanted to get out of her house as soon as she possibly could, and I think that marrying my father felt like a pretty safe bet. I had an older brother and a younger sister. My brother was two years older than me. My sister was one year younger. We moved to Schererville, Indiana, which at the time that I was growing up, was a really fabulous place to live. We lived in a beautiful brand-new house, and I think that by anybody's standards, they would've looked at our family, thinking we had it all. We were the all-American family, for sure. My father worked. He was a, a butcher. He worked. My mom didn't, so she was home with us. She was like a typical housewife back then. It was in the '60s, and she would cook for us, and we would swim and ride our bike and have sleepovers and have a lot of friends on the block. So it just felt really idyllic. I was not only a happy kid, I talked a lot. I was engaged. It was the kind of childhood that anybody would love to have,