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Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped on June 5, 2002, from her family's home in Salt Lake City

A little under a decade after being rescued, she married her husband, Matthew Gilmour, and the two welcomed three children together

As they've grown older, Smart has opened up to her children about her harrowing experience

There was a time in Elizabeth Smart ’s life when she didn’t know if she would ever be married or have a family.

The author and activist was just a teenager when she was abducted from her bedroom at her family’s Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2002. She was held captive and abused for nine months before she was eventually recognized and rescued.

Over the past two decades, she has worked to overcome the harrowing experience, marrying her husband, Matthew Gilmour, in

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