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Article: FLDS Church may be expanding in Texas

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May 11, 2007
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A member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church is breaking the silence of a closed society and reaching out to his new neighbors in a tiny town in the Bible Belt.

Samuel Fischer wrote a letter to a Texas newspaper explaining his decision to move a cabinetmaking business to the town of Lockney. He is also promising to hold a town meeting tonight to introduce himself.

"Yes I have a large family. I have twenty four children of which 13 are my own and I have adopted 11, although I don't distinguish between the two," he wrote in the letter published in Wednesday's Floyd County Hesperian-Beacon newspaper.

Fischer's letter follows weeks of rumor and speculation about the FLDS Church branching out to ...

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