I knew of the case of long-term captives seized as girls, but did not research them. I had been editing a quarterly journal, "Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science," for six years and we ran articles on almost all aspects of mind, brain, psychology, personality--including post-traumatic stress disorder not only among soliders after combat but rape victims, as well. This inspired some of my thinking about Caroline's behavior. And, of course, I was familiar with Stockholm Syndrome, where captives come to identify with their captors. I had read Hannah Arendt's account of how the Nazi concentration camp system broke down the human personality stage by stage (some of this Leonard Peikoff cited in his initial lectures, "Nazism and America: The Ominous Parallels," and this is what Caroline explicitly goes through in captivity. So a lot came together, here. I do not mean to suggest that later in the book there isn't some plain old erotic excitement at Caroline's behavior.

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