Bogota, Colombia - 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. "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, my light, my moon, my stars," Betancourt said, holding their heads close as they planted kisses on her cheeks. While the three Americans rescued with Betancourt stayed out of sight in a military hospital in Texas, television cameras...
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