Excerpts of kidnapping survivor Jaycee Dugard's memoir A Stolen Life recently became available exclusively via People , but this Sunday Dugard will speak publically for the very first time on "Primetime" with ABC's Diane Sawyer about her experience as an 18-year victim of imprisonment and abuse, as well as her new life asa now 31-yr-old free woman.  

In the interview, Dugard can be seen wearing a necklace with a pinecone symbol which she says helps to serve as a daily reminder of the last memory of her life before the kidnapping. Jaycee tells Sawyer that her last memory before she was stun-gunned into submission by Phillip Garrido , is that she touched something sticky. Only recently did she come to recall that the sticky object was a pinecone. In reflection, Dugard sees the pinecone as "a symbol of hope and new beginnings," and a ever-present reminder that "there is life after something tragic."

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