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"Leaving the FLDS Polygamous Culture" Andrew Ream Part 2. His battle with drugs, alcohol and his difficult journey to survive leaving polygamy..
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After leaving FLDS polygamy part 2. Andrew Ream then lost him self to drinking and drugs. He lost weight and got a rough taste of the party scene. He was working and trying to make a life for himself outside of the culture. He eventually moves back to Colorado City, AZ, and meets his wife, then immediately asking her dad for permission to marry her and getting married a few weeks later. He shares why his mom and dad can not speak to him. He gives some history about the crazy demands of the FLDS leader. Some history about his parents Heidi and Joseph Ream. His grandpa also left the religion just a few years before he passed away. One thing he would like to ask his mom and dad if they were sitting with us? Another crazy experience about life after leaving polygamy.
Andrew Ream was born and raised in Colorado City, Arizona in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a very strict patriarchal polygamous culture where the children are instructed to do what they are told, "keep sweet, pray and obey” the prophet, Warren Jeffs.
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