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This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. T oby Dorr never ran a red light, never rolled through a stop sign, never got so much as a speeding ticket. Her parents never bothered to give her a curfew, because she never stayed out late. She did everything she was supposed to do. For more than a decade, people here have argued about whether what she did was stupid and selfish or brave and inspirational. Looking back now, it all seems surreal to Toby, like a dream or a movie.

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Transform how you sleep — shop 5 Real Simple Sleep Award winners, more sleep essentials. Dorr had been helping inmates train dogs to prepare them for adoption as part of a program she founded called Safe Harbor Prison Dogs. She served 27 months in prison for her role in the escape, and Manard remains in prison. Middle-aged, middle class, middle of the scale in every category … white, female, politically unaware. My year marriage yawned; I felt like my husband hardly knew I existed. Milquetoast American life. Heck, I was even born and raised in the geographic center of the country, in a city not so big and not so small: Kansas City. Even there, I lived in the suburbs, neither in the city center nor the rural cornfields. Insignificant, invisible, bored. I jumped at the opportunity when the local prison suggested that I lead a dog rehab program. Little did I know how intoxicating purpose could be. My kids were grown, beyond any need for me.

She tried not to question her circumstances.

When Toby Dorr was 47, she fell in love with a convicted murderer and broke him out of the federal prison where she worked. Lifetime adapted her story into the movie " Jailbreak Lovers ," which debuted July 2. Before Dorr became entangled with a criminal and eventually became one herself, she said she was never one to break rules, let alone the law. She married the first man she dated and centered her life around work at a corporate job, raising her children, and going to church. That all changed when Dorr met John Manard, a convicted felon. Dorr's mounting feelings of unimportance, loneliness, and confusion were at an all-time high when she met Manard, she told Insider.

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Serving a life term for a deadly carjacking at Lansing Correctional Facility, Kansas, year-old John Manard escaped with the help of Toby Dorr, then known as Toby Young, after a romance sparked between them. At the age of 48, she could have never imagined that love would change her world, but it did. Toby Dorr, formerly Young, seemed to have a picture-perfect life. She had supportive parents, married her high school sweetheart, was dedicated to her work at Sprint — a telecom firm — and raised two children while earning a degree. However, in , following a brief encounter with thyroid cancer, Toby realized that her marriage and personal life were crumbling apart and decided to establish Safe Harbor Prison Dog — a rehabilitative program that paired rescued canines with inmates for further adoption. Its instant success meant that Toby soon became a regular at all areas of Lansing prison.

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Related Stories. Once it was in, she quickly slid the door closed. It turned out to be thyroid cancer. I chose life again and again, even when life was painful, unthinkably difficult or unlivable. What it might be like to escape our responsibilities, to get away, to start over. As she saw the tree approaching, Toby prayed that God would let her die in the wreck. Dorr served 27 months in prison for helping Manard escape. But the more she talked with her new friends in prison, and the more she reflected on everything that had led up to the escape, the more those letters from Manard began to seem a little immature. Not Manard. She felt someone recognize that she had needs. How to Watch.

Dorr had been helping inmates train dogs to prepare them for adoption as part of a program she founded called Safe Harbor Prison Dogs.

She said he listened to her talk about her empty marriage, miscarriage, thyroid-cancer diagnosis, and dying father. During the wild chase, Manard lost control of the vehicle, which ultimately came to a stop just before it would have slammed into a tree. She thought there must be construction ahead. It had been eight weeks. Toby is still a rule follower. Read preview. She always says regrets are a waste of time. She remembers thinking, Who do they think we are that they need 50 police cars? They took off and headed to a remote cabin in Tennessee, where they planned to lay low and finally consummate their love for one another. I jumped at the opportunity when the local prison suggested that I lead a dog rehab program. More inmates wanted dogs. Not squealing tires. Lifetime adapted her story into the movie " Jailbreak Lovers ," which debuted July 2.