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  1. I was a White Supremacist

    Arno Michaelis was a white supremacist but now works to improve race relations.

  2. I swam all night to Europe

    Hesham Modamani swam from Turkey to Greece to escape life in Syria.

  3. I Survived Boko Haram Bus Attack

    Hafsat Mohammed was travelling on a bus in northeast Nigeria when it came under attack.

  4. I survived a polar bear attack

    Matt Dyer was hiking in a remote part of Canada when he was attacked by a polar bear.

  5. I survived a polar bear attack

    Matt Dyer was hiking in a remote part of Canada when he was attacked by a polar bear.

  6. I Survived a Polar Bear Attack

    Matt Dyer was hiking in a remote part of Canada when he was attacked by a polar bear

  7. I see my son in the Northern Lights

    Chasing the aurora helps Hugo grieve

  8. I Saved Friends from Breivik Shooting

    Refugee Rustam Daudov saved 23 people from the attack by gunman Anders Behring Breivik.

  9. I Saved Baby From Our Migrant Boat

    Syrian refugee Doaa al Zamel tried to get to Europe on a boat that sank

  10. I save chimpanzees and they've saved me

    Stany Nyandwi's rescued chimpanzees helped him through war and loneliness

  11. I nearly drowned in space

    Luca Parmitano was on a space walk when water started leaking into his helmet

  12. I loved this orangutan like a sister

    Australian zoo keeper Kylie Bullo released the first zoo-born orangutan into the wild.

  13. I jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge

    Kevin Hines survived the jump and now helps others turn their backs on suicidal thoughts

  14. I invented the Super Soaker

    Lonnie Johnson made millions from inventing a toy water gun, the Super Soaker.

  15. I hit puberty, then burned down my family home

    At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why

  16. I Helped My Mother To Die

    Sean Davison was charged with attempted murder for helping to end his mother's life

  17. I have given a voice to civil war survivors

    Recording the oral history of Sierra Leone's bloody conflict.

  18. I had to eat my friends to survive

    Pedro Algorta was a passenger on a Uruguayan plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972

  19. I didn’t know I was part of an experiment

    When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away

  20. I didn't tell my mum I was her child

    Nurse Phyllis Whitsell spent years caring for her mother, who'd given her up for adoption

  21. I didn't realise I was in a cult

    Alexandra Stein spent ten years living in a secretive political group.

  22. I didn't know my name until I was 18

    Poet Lemn Sissay grew up in foster care unaware of his real name and identity

  23. I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

    A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

  24. I Became Friends with my FARC Captors

    Laura Ulloa was kidnapped by the FARC when she was 11 years old

  25. I Became a Temporary Bride in Iran

    Jennifer Klinec travelled to Iran to learn cookery but ended up meeting her husband.

  26. I am Pablo Escobar's Son

    Life as the son of notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar.

  27. Husband for Hire

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  28. Husband for Hire

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  29. Hunting the Lockerbie Bombers

    When his brother died in the Lockerbie bombing, Ken Dornstein tried to find his killer

  30. Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell

    Claire Martin was abandoned at two days old. For years she searched for blood relatives

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