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Freed hostage Betancourt reunites with family and orders first fresh-squeezed OJ By IAN JAMES Associated Press Writer BOGOTA, Colombia July 3, 2008 (AP) In her first hours of freedom, Ingrid Betancourt held her children tight, visited her father's grave and sent her husband out to find oranges for breakfast. Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, center, holds the hands of her children Melanie, left, and Lorenzo... "Last night was very beautiful," her husband Juan Carlos Lecompte said at the apartment of Betancourt's mother. "We talked all night long. We haven't slept." After six years as a prisoner of Colombia's rebels, the former presidential candidate rushed onto the plane that brought her children from France and threw her arms around Lorenzo, 19, and Melanie, 22. "They're my babies. They're my pride and my reason for living,... [read full story]
