YFZ Revisited – April 14, 2008 – Stories Told

Originally published on December 6, 2008.
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As the media availability on the YFZ Ranch continued, the FLDS women were very emotional telling their personal accounts of being separated from their children by CPS earlier that day.
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Not only the Kleenex, look at the body language in the fingers.
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The reporter from People Magazine spoke a lot to this group of women:
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They seemed to be speaking more about their lifestyle than about losing their children, though I can’t be sure— it wasn’t my interview. I wondered if they would get the cover over Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.
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These two were posing for the photographer People Magazine had hired:
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And this is the moment when he took the shot that put them on the cover of People Magazine. Bet they never thought in a million years they would staring out at every check-out lane in America’s grocery stores.
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Last frame for today:
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This woman told me about the mormon hymn book she had taken with her to the shelter, “I’m so glad I had this with me.”