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Because they always had,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd ultimately, that realization is why I decided I was going to do whatever it took to survive. \u2026 I was going to see my parents again.\u201d\nOn March 12, 2003, police rescued Smart from her captors after she was recognized. She would go on to testify against her kidnappers in court, helping ensure their conviction.\n\u201cThere were plenty of times during my experience I thought, \u2018It would be better if I was dead,\u2019\u201d Smart said. \u201cYou know that moment passed. That day passed. \u2026 Eventually nine months passed, and I was rescued.\u201d\nDespite her initial desire never to speak to anyone about what happened, Smart began working as a victims\u2019 rights advocate after her trial. She became an author, chronicling her experiences in her first book, \u201cMy Story,\u201d a New York Times bestseller.\nElizabeth Smart presents to a full audience Friday night at the Mississippi University for Women\u2019s Welty Gala at Trotter Convention Center. The gala benefits the university\u2019s scholarship fund.Ashlynd King/Dispatch Staff\nHer second book, \u201cWhere There\u2019s Hope,\u201d explores how to overcome trauma and find the strength to move forward.\nIn 2025, Smart released her third book, \u201cDetours: Hope and Growth After Life\u2019s Hardest Turns.\u201d\n\u201cI want anyone out there who\u2019s felt the same way as I did to know that they\u2019re not alone and that they can overcome whatever it is they\u2019re going through, and so that\u2019s kind of how I decided to write my story,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel like it did provide vindication, and helped me feel like I set the record straight that there was no one else out there who was going to go and try to tell my story that wasn\u2019t me.\u201d\nMore than a survivor \nSmart doesn\u2019t want her abduction to define her.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s very easy to feel defined by what\u2019s happened to you,\u201d she said. \u201cI have felt certainly like all anyone is ever gonna know me as is the \u2018girl that was kidnapped.\u2019 \u2026 I\u2019m more than that.\u201d\nSmart loves being a mother to her three children, watching \u201cThe Great British Baking Show\u201d and playing the harp, which she studied at Brigham Young University. She also loves Charlotte Bront\u00eb, public speaking and standing up for others.\nAnd she\u2019s very, very funny.\nThe audience laughed at Smart\u2019s stories about her father\u2019s \u201cNokia brick\u201d phone dying just after she was rescued, cutting off her father\u2019s good news to her mother, and her children\u2019s antics, from blue slime on white carpets to her son interrupting deep conversations with strangers at Costco to announce he needed the bathroom.\nAs she closed her speech, Smart said her mother told her the best thing she could do was be happy. It\u2019s advice she has taken seriously.\n\u201cThey did terrible things. It would be very easy to lose the will to live. It would be very easy to shrivel up and stay inside yourself,\u201d Smart said. \u201cMy mother never wanted me to give up the hope that maybe the next day will be better. And I think she was right. 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