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'I have three wives and 12 kids'

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Some 40,000 people in the US state of Utah live in illegal polygamous families in which a man takes more than one wife.

These fundamentalist Mormons have now begun a campaign to lobby for a change in the law that they see as discriminatory and unfair.

Kody Brown introduced Humphrey Hawksley to one of his three wives and his 12 children.

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