![]() He agreed to meet her at Canaan Corners, a convenience store three miles from town on the Utah side of the border. ![]() She went to her sister’s house and called her brother in SLC and asked him to help her. Excommunicating men who were perceived as a threat and reassigning their wives and children to other men (sometimes such reassignments happened multiple times one women complained that she felt like a “polygamy prostitute.”). Forcing younger and younger girls into marriages with old men. Killing all the dogs in the community, Banning the color red. ![]() Destroying all outside literature (including her collection of 300 children’s books that she cherished). Things like pulling all the kids out of public schools. The sect had become increasingly extreme under the leadership of Warren Jeffs, and she was desperate to get out. She needed a time when her husband Merril was gone and all eight of her children were home. She had been preparing for this moment for a long time, squirreling away some cash and some extra medications for her children. The book opens with a Preface that describes the actual escape itself, on April 21, 2003. ![]() It gives an inside view of what it was like for her to grow up FLDS, and the challenges she faced in leaving it. I finally finished Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, which I bought from Benchmark at MHA. ![]()
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