Do you realize how lucky we are? That we are free to choose whom we marry, and that kidnappings are not common practice? I just watched this half hour special on BBC World News (I have a cool new widget that lets me stream it live) on the women in Chechnya and how they are kidnapped all the time and forced into marriages with the kidnapper. It also doesn't seem like much is ever done to stop it, either. And many of these kidnapped women don't even survive. Their bodies are later found dumped alongside a road or river, with a bullet to the head. Many of the surviving ones never even see their families again. And it's not like they are kidnapped in a dark alley late at night - most of the kidnappings occur in broad daylight with tons of witnesses... yet no one says anything-->not even the police! 
How would you like to live in a country that does such awful things - with law enforcement who lets it happen! And if anyone tries to question it... this is what happens. Don't take for granted the blessings that you have. Be grateful for your freedoms. Life could be a whole lot worse.
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Count your many blessings. I have watched other documentaries about other countries tragic lives and it makes me SO grateful to be an American!!
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