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Jill Carroll Back In Boston

Journalist Jill Carroll is back in the United States on Sunday, after spending 82 days as a hostage in Iraq. She says, "I finally feel like I am alive again." Carroll was joined on the flight home to Boston by a colleague at the Christian Science Monitor, the newspaper she was freelancing for in Iraq.

State police escorted the 28-year-old to the newspaper`s headquarters, where she met her parents and twin sister. Carroll has been reported as saying to her colleague that "I finally feel like I am alive again. I feel so good. To be able to step outside anytime, to feel the sun directly on your face - to see the white sky. These are luxuries that we just don`t appreciate every day."

Jill Carroll was abducted by gunmen in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 7 of this year. Her translator was killed in the incident. She was freed on Thursday, after making an anti-U.S. video she says she was coerced into making as a final demand of her captors in return for her freedom.