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Originally published on December 6, 2008. 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. Not only the Kleenex, look at the body language in the fingers. The reporter from People Magazine spoke a lot to this group of women: 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. These two were posing for the photographer People Magazine had hired: 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. Last frame for today: 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.”