{"id":29296,"date":"2013-07-25T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=29296"},"modified":"2014-12-24T00:46:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T00:46:35","slug":"gardfrey3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29296","title":{"rendered":"Remarks by Dawn Gardfrey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My name is Dawn Gardfrey. I was 15 when I came from\u2013 back from Georgetown to the States \u2013 I survived Jonestown \u2013 probably one of the few survivors that everybody knows, ’cause I was so young at the time. But I just had to say thank you to the committee, Fielding, John, Jimmie, whom I was lovingly adopted as their little sister as well as the sister of Brenda, Joel, Sandy, Ava Cobb, and I thank Terri and them for just accepting me and loving me, as well as a whole lot of family. I represent the young people, I represent the children, I represent our hopes, our dreams, I represent our life, our joy. We were happy, we were a family, we were just\u2013 we were in paradise, despite what anyone says, what anyone believes. It was a joy to get up every day to those faces, to those loved ones. My mom was there\u2013 I lost my mom, Beverly Mitchell, but I’m grateful, that she left doing what she loved, which was being in the nursery. She also adopted a young Guyanese child, as many of them did, while she was there. And I’m just grateful\u2013 I lost my two sisters, my brother, two cousins, and I just want to say thank you, because now I can have closure. Now I can have peace. And I know that they are okay. And I know I have a place to come and visit them to say hello to let them know how I’m doing. And I just want to say thank you. I’m going to miss\u2013 and I love them. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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