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Nancy Salas is alive and safe, but the story of her disappearance did not exactly end happily. She has admitted that she made up a tale about being kidnapped while jogging in Glendale, and had been telling her family she was attending UCLA and would graduate next month. In fact, she has not been enrolled since 2008. Fox 11
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Glendale woman admits it was all a hoax
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