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LEFT FOR DEAD: HOW MARY SURVIVED

America in the 1970s was an extraordinarily different time. Children would regularly play outside from dawn until dusk without any supervision, bikes were ridden without helmets and women didn’t think twice about hitching a ride down a highway at night.

Hitchhiking was a popular way of getting around the United States and girls would be found waving their thumbs at passing trucks. Most were

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