I recently sat down with Librarienne Seline Trapper for an interview about her life, the interview will appear in next month's Kittridge Experience Magazine (for men and women).
THE KITTRIDGE EXPERIENCE: Can you start by telling us a bit about yourself?
SELINE TRAPPER: My name is Seline Trapper, I'm 37 years old and I pay 200 dollars a day to a pirate who has kidnapped my family. He says I have to pay him 200 dollars a day or he'll kill my husband and children.
TKFE: You must have an interesting life.
ST: My life is very stressful I'm constantly in fear of the pirate - that's the pirate I mentioned earlier - killing my family. I can't eat or sleep well and I'm crying most of the time. I feel weak and horrible.
TKFE: what do you do for a living?
ST: I'm a librarian...I've been working at the library for 17 years and I'm a very diligent worker they noticed this and put me in charge. I'm the boss of the library so I have to write all of the books, though a lot of my day is spent repairing damaged words in older books, or crafting verbs for local industry out of iron.
TKFE: most people think libraries and librarians are boring.
ST: Libraries are very exciting if you use your imagination! There's many exciting stories inside libraries. It's a lot of work but I make a lot of money from all the people that come to my library to read my books.
TKFE: That must come in handy for paying the pirate.
ST: yes, the pirate is quite pleased that he gets 200 dollars a day from me, we have exchanged emails a few times and he has said as much. Everyone at work has been very supportive, even my pirate colleague Janice has been kind. Though this incident involving my family has started to affect my work, all the books I write now are about pirates. I dreamt the other night that I was tangled in an enormous beard above shark infested water. As I slowly slipped down through the beard, I looked up to see my family: all pirates, laughing. My husband had 2 peg legs and 2 peg arms, part of his face was a peg face. I woke up just as I hit the water.
TKFE: Have you spoken to your family since the abduction?
ST: No, I have only gotten a text message from my daughter to wish me a happy birthday, that was very nice but I couldn't really appreciate it because I was so stressed about my family being held captive by horrible people. Also, I think the pirate typed the message on his phone, so that tainted it a bit. And the message was a week late.
TKFE: Do you think you'll ever see your family again?
ST: Yes, I do...I am an optimistic person, I have tried to keep a positive outlook on things during all of this, I still attend my cooking class each week for example even if it is just to sob violently. Everyone in the class understands and they try to just work around me, the teacher raises her voice slightly so the others can hear. I cook too...through the tears. I can't rely too much on the police because the police are all pirates of course. Janice, who is a Pirate I work with, knows the man who stole my family and she has been helping me work out a plan. She had met him socially and they dated. We're attempting to change his mind and get him to set my family free without violence, but its a slow process - it will take years.
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