It wasn't fun.

Jaycee Dugard's story is utterly flabbergasting. Would an 11-year-old girl have to be especially vulnerable to fall prey to such a psychological, as well as physical, snare? Or could this happen to a normal kid?

On Wednesday, a woman she walked into a police station and announced that she was Jaycee Dugard, the 11-year-old girl who was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., in 1991. Soon observers will be asking why she didn’t ask for help sooner.