Jaycee Lee Dugard's Memoir Hits Stores

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A Stolen Life, the much-hyped memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard, was released today.

Dugard was kidnapped at age of eleven in 1991 and held captive by Phillip and Nancy Garrido for 18 years before rescue.

Her long, lonely captivity, rape, and impregnation are difficult and graphic memories, but Dugard, who wrote A Stolen Life herself, neither sensationalizes nor sanitizes her experience.  

Jaycee Lee's lost youth and heartbreaking wisdom bring a vulnerable honesty to her story.  Its magic lies in its simplicity.

• See an excerpt from Diane Sawyer's interview of Jaycee.
• Musical accompaniment?  Give the official "Jaycee Lee" song a listen.