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Mon 10 Oct 2009'We went through some very dark hours, but we prayed and thought of our families'
THREE MONTHS, two weeks and one day. That is how long Sharon Commins and her colleague Hilda Kawuki spent in captivity, living and sleeping in the open air amid the dust and searing heat of Darfur, the guns of their kidnappers never far from sight.
For someone who had endured many of those 107 days fearing for her life, Sharon Commins was remarkably calm and collected yesterday as she gave her first interview to The Irish Timesjust hours after her release. “It feels just unbelievable. It’s like as if the past 3½ months have been like a dream. There was not one day that we weren’t fearful and extremely stressed, and it’s an amazing, amazing feeling to be finally free,” she said.
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