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EXCLUSIVE FIRST FAMILY PHOTOSPHOTO: REX FEATURESJAYCEE LEEDUGARDAND DAUGHTERSREUNITED WITH HER MOTHER‘This is Jaycee’s way of letting everyone know thatshe is doing well and there is hope for the future’

‘I’m just so happyto be back with myfamily. Nothing ismore importantthan the love Ihave from them’Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, lookswell and happy after her 18-yearkidnap nightmare (top right). She isbonding again with her motherTerry Probyn (right). But Jaycee’sdaughters, Angel and Starlit(above, with Jaycee), born duringher ordeal, are not thought to bere a d y t o b e i d e n t i f i e d . P h i l l i pGarrido, who has been chargedwith Jaycee’s abduction, is said tobe their father. A poster from thetime Jaycee went missing (left)69

‘Meeting her you would never know she’s been through this ordeal.She’s friendly, she jokes. She also has a real innocence in her eyes’now working on recapturing thebond between them. Living at anundisclosed location, they spendtheir days talking, reading andcooking together. “There doesn’tseem to be a moment of tensionbetween the girls and mom – theywere all very loving and respectful,”said a friend.Family spokeswoman Erika PriceSchulte told US magazine People: “Terryfeels as if, after 18 years, she doesn’twant to let Jaycee out of her sight.”Jaycee, too, has expressed her joy atbeing reunited with Terry and herhalf-sister Shayna, 19, who was just atoddler when her sister went missing.“I’m so happy to be back with myfamily,” she said.Added family lawyer McGregorScott: “She is very upbeat, giddy thatshe’s with her family. She smiles a lot.”Jaycee’s daughters Angel, 15, andStarlit, 11, are also adjusting to theirnew surroundings. They had beenbrought up to believe that Jaycee wastheir big sister. “The girls haveaccepted that Jaycee is their mother,”a source told HELLO!. “Because of theunconditional, protective love sheshowed them when they thought shewas their big sister, it’s more a case ofswitching titles – the love is still there.”The girls are not being identifiedin these photographs – doctors donot believe they are ready for publicattention. And there are reports thatthey may even change their names.Jaycee with her mum and half-sister Shayna, 19, and her horse Oreo (above). Animal-loving Jaycee and herdaughters have been doing a lot of riding together, organised by a therapist who is treating them together andjoined by Terry and Shayna. Mother and daughter are rediscovering their bond (above right)he pretty young woman lookingTrelaxed and happy as she holdshands with her mother on a ranch in70Northern California could be anyaverage American 29-year-old.Yet this is Jaycee Lee Dugard,who went through the almostunimaginable ordeal of abductionat the age of 11, and 18 years ofcaptivity in squalid conditions, beingraped and bearing two childrenwhen she was herself barely morethan a child.It was a story that astonished theworld when Jaycee and her two girlswere freed by police earlier this year.Now, making the most of her freedomas she strolls in the autumnal sunshine, the reluctant subject of theheadlines is determined to lead asnormal a life as she can.“Meeting her, if you didn’t knowwhat happened, you would neverguess in a million years,” a familyfriend told HELLO!. “She’s friendly,she jokes, she’s a sweet girl and verykind. She also has a real innocence inher eyes.”She has also overcome the pallorof her captivity and looks muchyounger than her years. The brightyoung woman and her mother,school secretary Terry Probyn, areA TRUE MIRACLEStarlit and Angel had grown upcalling Phillip Garrido “Dad” andbelieving that his wife Nancy was theirmother. The girls lived in filthy tentsand windowless sheds hidden by treesin the couple’s backyard and hadnever seen a school or a doctor. TheGarridos now face 29 chargesincluding kidnap, false imprisonmentand rape. Both plead not guilty.Jaycee herself received noeducation after being kidnapped.“But clearly, Jaycee, self-taught, hasdone a remarkable job educating herdaughters – a true miracle,” a friendtold HELLO !. Recent tests showedthat the girls have high levels ofintelligence, equivalent to those ofschool-educated children. They arenow being home schooled.“I can tell you they are adjustingamazingly well,” added the source.“They are smart, playful, funny girls.But they are also ver y caring andprotective of each other – maybe areflection of how it was for them incaptivity.”The family is receiving intensivetherapy sessions and acknowledgesthat the road ahead won’t be easy.Part of their treatment hasincluded horse riding sessions withTerr y and Shayna, organised by atherapist and designed to encouragetrust and familiarity. The freedom ofriding a horse in the fresh air is astark contrast to the life they ledbefore. “Jaycee has a horse, Oreo,that she has bonded with –something important to herrecovery,” says a friend.While Angel and Starlit are

‘She wants to have a homewith the girls and a happy,quiet, normal life’learning how to cope with normalfamily relations, it was their unusualbehaviour while with Phillip Garridothat led to his arrest. In August,Phillip took them to the campus ofthe University of California, Berkeley,where he was tr ying to arrange anevent for a religious group calledGod’s Desire.Lisa Campbell, manager of theUniversity of California PoliceDepartment special events unit, metthe family and felt the girls “didn’tlook right”. Phillip’s behaviourseemed erratic, while Starlit andAngel seemed “sullen and sub missive”, she said.Lisa arranged a meeting for thefollowing day, accompanied this timeby University Police Officer AllyJacobs, who had done a check anddiscovered Phillip’s criminal background – he had been convicted ofrape and imprisonment in 1976, butreleased on parole after 11 years. Allyshared her colleague’s concerns. “Icouldn’t get over the intense stare ofthe younger girl, like she was lookinginto my soul,” she said, adding that“police intuition” combined with“mother’s intuition” spurred her onto find out more. She called Phillip’sparole officer and arranged for thefamily to come into a local paroleoffice.Phillip arrived with his wife, Jayceeand the girls. “They took Jaycee inanother room and she told them thewhole stor y,” said her stepgrandmother Wilma Probyn.Soon after wards, policecalled Terry with the incredible71

‘Jaycee’s moreexcited aboutwhat is ahead.She’s neverlooking back’news that her daughter had beenfound.Detectives are now preparing acase against Phillip, 58, and Nancy,54, with Jaycee’s help. Next week, thecouple will appear in court to facetheir accusers. They are currentlybeing held in a Californian prison.While Jaycee, Terry and the girlswill have to relive the memories of herabduction and 18-year ordeal, theirfocus is on moving forward.A foundation has been set up toassist the girls financially, while Terrywants to use her experiences to helpothers. “Terry wants to send out themessage that parents should nevergive up hope,” says a friend.The twice-married mother of twois currently writing a book of hermemories, for which Jaycee mayprovide the foreword.She and her daughters and granddaughters agreed to take part in thisphotoshoot because they wanted tothank people for their best wishes,and show that they are doing well.“They are looking forward to theirfirst Christmas together – they haveforgotten what it was like and havenever had one since the abduction,”said a source.“Jaycee is excited about what isahead,” added her spokeswoman.“She is never looking back, she isnever looking in that direction.” HREPORT: DAWN EMERYPHOTOS: DAVID SCHUMACHER &FRANK WEISMANN72PHOTOS: EYEVINEJaycee Dugard and her mother Terry Probyn share memories over a family photo album as they reestablish their mother-daughter bond (above). Jaycee was kidnapped from a bus-stop at her home inSouth Lake Tahoe, California,18 years ago when she was just 11 years old. Phillip Garrido, 58, and hiswife Nancy, 54 (both right), have been charged with the kidnap and 28 other charges related to Jaycee’sabduction. He allegedly kept the little girl in a series of ramshackle homes and a shed in his garden inAntioch 170 miles away from her home (below), where she gave birth to her daughters Starlit andAngel. None of the three ever went to school or saw a doctor in the years they were imprisoned

Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, looks well and happy after her 18-year kidnap nightmare (top right). She is bonding again with her mother Terry Probyn (right). But Jaycee’s daughters, Angel and Starlit (above, with Jaycee), born during her ordeal, are not thought to be read