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How did Brenda Nicholson, her husband and their six children leave the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

In the middle of the night and before sect leaders could take her children away, she says in a 21-minute video posted earlier this month.

But the escape isn't as interesting as Nicholson's story leading to it. The documentary short is called "If This is Heaven, Then Give Me Hell." The latter is pretty much what Nicholson describes.

The video is embedded above, or, if you're on the mobile app, click here to view it.

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