"Surviving meant separating my mind from my body and trying to believe that I wasn’t Sophie anymore; I was a Russian girl who was doing what she had to do to support her family and keep out of trouble. If I thought about anything else, I just got upset, and that made it harder for me to detach myself from what used to be my reality, but was now just my past."
— Two days ago I started, and have now finished “Trafficked” a chillingly true account of Sophie Hayes’ horrific experience in the underworld of sex trafficking. Sold on the streets of Italy by the man who said he loved her - I have never felt both horrified and inspired at the same time.
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