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   MATT LAUER, co-host: Now to Amanda Knox and her new life back home in Seattle . What does the future hold? Will she write a book, will there be a movie deal? NBC 's Stephanie Gosk has the latest on this. Stephanie , good morning to you.

   STEPHANIE GOSK reporting: Good morning, Matt. One of the concerns when Amanda Knox came home was that she might not know exactly how famous she has become over the last four years. But after a day and a half she's starting to get it. The family lawyer says she's fully aware of all of the media requests that have been coming in, that for the moment, are not dying down.

   Offscreen Voice: Here she is. There's Amanda.

   GOSK: Interest in the young woman with the incredible story to tell has reached fevered pitch.

   Ms. AMANDA KNOX: They're reminding me to speak in English. So I am having problems with that.

   GOSK: The brief moment Amanda Knox spoke only piquing interest.

   Mr. DAVID MARRIOTT (Knox Family Media Advisor): I would really ask a big favor of all of you, and that is to give this family some time.

   GOSK: There has been a steady stream of calls for interviews, book deals and movie rights, but here in Seattle there are signs of growing sensitivity to the Knox family . A group of local TV stations has decided to back off. A letter to the family reads, "All these stations are pulling out of Amanda's West Seattle neighborhood -- that includes all of the Knox family homes -- to allow the family the peace they have asked for." David Marriott has handled public relations for the family since the Knox was arrested four years ago.

   Mr. MARRIOTT: The conversations about what happens next and what kind of story she wants to tell, we'll probably have those in a couple or three weeks, but for now we're trying to give her some breathing room.

   GOSK: He says it may be two to three months before Knox sits down to publicly tell her story. The 24-year-old has spent four years in an Italian jail for a murder conviction the court has now overturned. Finally home, she is focused on her recovery.

   Mr. CRAIG HANEY (Professor of Psychology, University of California): Prison is a profoundly traumatic experience for anybody and for people who have been exonerated, in a way it's even more traumatic because they've suffered for no good reason.

   GOSK: And for Amanda Knox it is even harder. International notoriety has practically forced her into hiding.

   Mr. MARRIOTT: The questions I got today, what did she eat last night? What is she going to eat for breakfast in the morning? So there's this very high level of interest. I think that will go down over time . But I would say it's not going to happen fully until she probably does tell her story.

   GOSK: But for now, while Knox gets reacquainted with freedom and spends time with her family , the story will have to wait. The family lawyer told us yesterday that actually she spent very little time talking about herself that first night at that party for family and friends , that a lot of it was her just asking questions to the people that she hasn't seen or talked to in such a long period of time. She also shared just one story about prison. She said that on the way out, in Italian jail, prisoners snap their toothbrushes as they're leaving as a kind of good luck charm to the people that are still inside, and that she actually did that on her way out, Matt.

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