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Elizabeth Smart says she thought she would be killed when she was abducted from her Federal Heights home nearly four years ago. "It was always a possibility," she told CNN talk show host Larry King on Thursday night. Appearing on "Larry King Live" with her father, Ed Smart, Smart answered questions about the kidnapping and her life after it. Today, Smart works as a bank teller and has a boyfriend. At high school, she is treated pretty regularly, she said. Brian David Mitchell and wife Wanda Eileen Barzee allegedly kidnapped the then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart on June 5, 2002. Elizabeth was rescued March 12, 2003, after she, Mitchell and Barzee were spotted walking down a street in Sandy. "It was just the greatest day ever," Smart said of the day she was found. "It was just wonderful." The interview came on the same day of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Hatch's bill will create a national database and require convicted sex offenders to register their whereabouts every month in person. Failure to comply would be a felony. Smart said she wanted the bill to go through, "so many more people will be protected." She also said she hopes no child goes through what she did: "Nobody deserves to go through that." Smart also acknowledged she has forgiven her abductors. - Justin Hill