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Virginia Giuffre’s death was like a wake-up call from my kidnapping experience: Survivor | Banfield
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5:19Now PlayingElizabeth Smart, a child safety advocate and author, tells “Banfield” that she felt her time to speak up about her kidnapping 23 years ago was after Virginia Giuffre passed away earlier this year from suicide. "I felt like we had failed her," Smart says.
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