![]() ![]() ![]() Ten thousand of us lived in a community along the Utah-Arizona border. The Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). We belonged to a sect known as the Church of 'Will you do it?' I tried not to sound as desperate as I felt. 'Carolyn,' he said, 'I'll do everything I can, but even if I leave right now, the soonest I can be there is five in the morning.' He lived 300 miles away and would have to drive through the night. The choice was freedom or a life of fear. The two things that had to happen before I could escape were in place: my husband had gone away on a business trip and my eight children were all at home. Now the time was right and I could not afford to fail. I had been watching and waiting for months. ![]() Brought up in a closed sect that believes in polygamy as the key to paradise, Carolyn Jessop endured an arranged marriage to a 50-year-old man and had eight children before she found the courage to flee, taking her family with her ![]()
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