Emilce has rebuilt her life, thanks, she says, to the help of her then boyfriend and now husband who waited for her to be released.

Emilce已经重建了自己的生活。她说，要感谢她当时男友，也就是现在她丈夫的帮助。

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"I just need an hour to do some applications," Trotter says in a desperate voice to her boyfriend. "It's not like I can do it when you're not here, because you have your phone.

“我只需要一个小时写个求职书，”Trotter绝望地向她男友喊道，“当你不在家的时候，我没办法弄着这个，因为你有你自己的电话。”

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Leah Schklar, 32, of Washington, D.C., says she met her boyfriend on Craiglist. "We talked for about a week and then met in a bookstore, " she says.

来自华盛顿特区的莉亚·斯卡拉（Leah Schklar）今年32岁，她说自己同男友是在Craiglist上结识的，“我们在网上聊了大约一周左右，然后相约在一家书店见面”。

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She says she got tested for HIV after she became pregnant because she saw that her boyfriend was sick and she got worried.

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She says one customer told her that her boyfriend said it made her look old.

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Thankfully, Olga says she is happy in Kiev - she has made friends, and her boyfriend of two years is also on the fencing team.

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