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"My name is Lauren Burns, and I was kidnapped at the age of seven by my Jordanian father and taken to Jordan. My mother, Cathy Hopkins, hired ex-military experts who traveled to Jordan with my mother to bring me home safely. Through a daring rescue mission, my mother and I escaped across a secured military border into Israel. My story was headline news in the Washington Post, New York Times, Reader’s Digest, People Magazine, and numerous others. In 1993, Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story debuted as a NBC made-for-television drama starring Mariel Hemingway based on my childhood. I am a wife, a mom, and a full-time physical therapist living in sunny San Antonio, Texas. I feel incredibly blessed to be married to an amazing man and to have two wonderful boys, who are about to enter middle school"