Please keep your distance and encourage your viewers and readers to keep theirs. Please let them speak only if and when they want to. Please focus on the joy and not the horror.
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Gina DeJesus's parents Nancy and Felix (R) talk to the press after their daughter arrived at her family home on May 8, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. DeJesus along with two other women were rescued this week after a decade spent imprisoned and tormented in a kidnapper's house made an emotional return to their families on Wednesday. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
Gina DeJesus's parents Nancy and Felix (R) talk to the press after their daughter arrived at her family home on May 8, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. DeJesus along with two other women were rescued this week after a decade spent imprisoned and tormented in a kidnapper's house made an emotional return to their families on Wednesday. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

Please let them be.

Please allow them to be with their families.

Please let them heal.

Please let them recover and reenter.

Please let them start the long healing process without the media's needs coming first.

Please hope that they get the psychological and spiritual help they need.

Please don't try to take their pictures.

Please keep your distance and encourage your viewers and readers to keep theirs.

Please let them speak only if and when they want to.

Please focus on the joy and not the horror.

Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.

Please. Please. Please.

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