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Messy as her own life was. she swallowed her pride and moved back to room 110 colonial motel, even though by then, says pepper, shirley didn't seem to care much what she did. >> i remember when i was trying to plot my escape before it went into action, i was in my mind going, i'm going to show her. she'll care. i remember thinking that. but she didn't care. she didn't come to get me. >> still, having tasted freedom once, pepper was determined to get away from her kidnapper for good. a second time she took a chance, moved after the family and a second time had to return. and then finally by the...

In los angeles county and took a job at the cleaning woman in exchange for a free room. and if it wasn't much, at least it gave them some measure of stability, and they signed up at a local school. junior high for pepper, high school for renee. much to shirley's disapproval. >> shirley would tell us girls don't go to school. they get married. why do you want to go to school? i didn't like being late to school. i didn't like being absent all the time. >> so they got themselves up every morning and went to school and kept going. and then pepper was 12, eight of those years with shirley when she ...

♪ of thoughts and dreams that scatter ♪ ♪ you pull them all together ♪ and how, i can't explain ♪ ♪ oh yeah, well well well youuuu ♪ ♪ you make my dreams come true ♪ ♪ well, well, well youuuu ♪ topped steak & twisted potatoes at applebee's. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. welcome back to dateline extra. i'm gregg melvin. returning to our story now, here again, keith morrison. >> when we first told you the story about pepper smith and her lifelong journey to find her

Renee now 19, got on with life, moved in with her boyfriend. soon pepper showed up at their apartment homeless and nowhere else to turn to. and everywhere pepper went from then on, shirley's poison gift followed because of that woman and what she did, pepper was officially at least a nonperson. so it took a little while for determination to come back. she was in her mid 20s, a single mother by then. if only she could find her birth certificate, that could lead her to her parents. anyway, she needed documents to live. she needed a passport. so she contacted state offices. their departments of v...

Again with pepper and renee. >> so there it is. you have your mother. but what now? >> will you have a relationship with her? going to move her in with me. >> move into your house? >> yes. yes. once she gets all her affairs into -- in order, we're going to move her in. >> why? >> because i want her. my husband wants her too. there. so i want to have a relationship with my mom. like i was telling you earlier, i want to go shopping. i want to have lunch. i want to go buy stuff. i want to have christmas, thanksgiving, her there with me. >> and pepper? well, for one thing, pepper has adopted her r...