![]() ![]() “I hope she will come out one day.” On the cover of one diary, Samuel had inscribed the word “Me” on an image of Cinderella. “I keep thinking about her,” Adamu told me of Samuel. ![]() None of the 103 young women freed as a result of the negotiations had married an additional four who had wed were found by the Nigerian military. More than 100 Chibok girls have yet to be reunited with their families seven years after they were stolen. Samuel succumbed to pressure and married one of her captors. A sentence beginning, “Me Naomi Adamu I did not eat for three days,” which described her refusal to take meals offered by the militants during her early days in captivity, was written in Samuel’s hand. ![]() Her best friend, Sarah Samuel, now 24, did most of the writing in the two main notebooks that the young women filled, while Adamu did most of the narrating. Bouts of illness had caused Adamu to miss chunks of schooling over the years, making her older and less literate than her classmates. ![]()
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