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Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented his captives with psychological and physical abuse for over a decade, but Michelle refused to surrender her hope or her spirit. In this powerful memoir, she recounts not only the horrors she survived, but the small acts of resistance and resilience that kept her alive—and the long, difficult journey toward healing and reclaiming her identity after rescue. Finding Me is ultimately a story of survival, courage, and the fierce human will to endure.