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A British teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of a writing project arrived home Tuesday after being pardoned...

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''I'm just an ordinary middle-aged primary school teacher. I went out there to have an adventure, and got a bit more than I bargained for,'' Gibbons said at a brief news conference.

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''It has been an ordeal but I'd like want you to know that I was well-treated in prison and everybody was very kind to me,'' she said. ''I was very sorry to leave Sudan. I had a fabulous time there. It's a really lovely place, and I managed to see some of the beautiful countryside while I was there.''

Gibbons said she didn't want her experience ''to put anyone off going to Sudan -- in fact I know of a lovely school that needs a new Year Two teacher.''

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When asked her feelings about the offense she was accused of, Gibbons said: ''I don't think I really know enough about it to comment really. It's a very difficult area and a very delicate area.''

''I was very upset to think that I might have caused offense to people,'' she added.

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:clock: waiting for the post from someone saying she must have been brainwashed and beat by the "ungrateful savages"

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:clock: waiting for the post from someone saying she must have been brainwashed and beat by the "ungrateful savages"

she's alive, so that didn't happen.

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:clock: waiting for the post from someone saying she must have been brainwashed and beat by the "ungrateful savages"

she's alive, so that didn't happen.

oh, you were in jail with her then..you KNOW what happened?

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:clock: waiting for the post from someone saying she must have been brainwashed and beat by the "ungrateful savages"

she's alive, so that didn't happen.

oh, you were in jail with her then..you KNOW what happened?

if they beat her she'd be dead ;)

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:clock: waiting for the post from someone saying she must have been brainwashed and beat by the "ungrateful savages"

she's alive, so that didn't happen.

oh, you were in jail with her then..you KNOW what happened?

if they beat her she'd be dead ;)

you are missing the point of my original post... but that's ok...

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:clock: waiting for the post from someone saying she must have been brainwashed and beat by the "ungrateful savages"

she's alive, so that didn't happen.

oh, you were in jail with her then..you KNOW what happened?

if they beat her she'd be dead ;)

you are missing the point of my original post... but that's ok...

are we gonna have another one of those blonde moments? :P

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:clock: waiting for the post from someone saying she must have been brainwashed and beat by the "ungrateful savages"

she's alive, so that didn't happen.

oh, you were in jail with her then..you KNOW what happened?

if they beat her she'd be dead ;)

you are missing the point of my original post... but that's ok...

are we gonna have another one of those blonde moments? :P

you are? :jest:

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:clock: waiting for the post from someone saying she must have been brainwashed and beat by the "ungrateful savages"

she's alive, so that didn't happen.

oh, you were in jail with her then..you KNOW what happened?

if they beat her she'd be dead ;)

you are missing the point of my original post... but that's ok...

are we gonna have another one of those blonde moments? :P

you are? :jest:

you know what i'm referring to :P

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She seems like a very gracious woman.

Yes, far more than is warranted.

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She seems like a very gracious woman.

indeed, and she's an example of how NOT to become bitter in the face of a horrible experience. I'm glad she's able to have the positive memories of the place and people she met while she was there

She seems like a very gracious woman.

Yes, far more than is warranted.

Would it be better that she have all kinds of bitter feelings?

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She seems like a very gracious woman.

indeed, and she's an example of how NOT to become bitter in the face of a horrible experience. I'm glad she's able to have the positive memories of the place and people she met while she was there

She seems like a very gracious woman.

Yes, far more than is warranted.

Would it be better that she have all kinds of bitter feelings?

i doubt it will be on her vacation plans ever again :P

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