I am utterly delighted for Rory Carroll and his family.

I'm just happy to be free. I just want to be with my family.

No family should have to endure having their loved one taken away from them in this way.

In a very real way, the whole family has cancer. Traditionally, we thought of the disease being contained within the patient. But if we look at it from the other lens, we see how it hits the emotions and social relationships of families.

I thought first when he was calling that maybe his captors were allowing him to make one call from his cell or something.

We are over the moon at the news.