"I told her she would not be happy with me because I had been drinking and when she saw me the next day I would be hungover, " Mr Siree said.

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The few occasions I saw her pause she would put a hand over her eyes, breathe in and out deeply, and that was when I would know she was exhausted.

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"I remember thinking I wanted to hold my breath because I was afraid, if he saw that I was breathing, he would shoot again, " she told CNN affiliate WPXI from her hospital bed.

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When I would apply for a different job and a potential employer saw that I was a hospitality manager they would most likely think if she is in hospitality and management, why do we want to hire her for a public relations position.

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When I spoke with her last year, she said she saw a life for herself beyond NBC and Today and would be interested in teaching and humanitarian work.

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She would have been in a distressed state following the attack, and I would ask anyone who saw anyone matching that description late on Friday night into Saturday morning to come forward.

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"The women in the market had destroyed their skin with all this kind of beauty products, bleaching products, and so I saw the need for assisting them to reverse the process because otherwise it would become a social problem, " she said.

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