Ingrid Betancourt - The only thing I've settled in my mind is that

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

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Betancourt, Ingrid. Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle. Penguin Press, 2010.

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