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When Darlene Barlow Stubbs was growing up in Short Creek, Arizona, she wasn’t allowed to have toys, a bike, or even books. Under the new leadership of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prophet Warren Jeffs, a sect of the Mormon church, strict changes in what was allowed shifted the tightknit community’s contact with outsiders. Children were no longer allowed to attend public school, including Barlow Stubbs, who left in fourth grade. At age 15, while working 11-hour daily shifts at a chicken restaurant, she realized she wanted out. “I didn’t want to live in a plural mar…