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Tammy Lawrence-Daley was hungry after a night of dancing and floating on the carefree feeling that comes from a five-star Caribbean vacation.

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The mother of two from Wilmington, Delaware, was on the second night of a stay with her husband and friends at the Majestic Elegance Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic last January. As Lawrence-Daley wrote this week in a Facebook post that went viral, after learning the hotel’s room service had shut down for the night, she left her room to get a snack at the resort’s lounge.

But walking through the empty corridors outside the building where she was staying, she suddenly heard footsteps approaching from behind.

“He just plowed into my back and I remember the grunt he made when he hit me,” Lawrence-Daley, 51, told WPVI on Thursday. “It’s in my nightmares.”

For Lawrence-Daley, the attack in the hallway was the beginning of a brutal eight-hour encounter involving an unidentified male that nearly ended her life.