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This world by yourself. and i went with them. >> amina called me. she said, im never going back there. id rather die first than to ever go back there. so youre a small business expert from at&t? yeah, give me a problem and ive got the solution. well, we have 30 years of customer records. our cloud can keep them safe and accessible anywhere. my drivers dont have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep it all digital. were looking to double our deliveries. our fleet apps will find the fastest route....

♪ amina posted on her facebook, you know. she was afraid to become a member because she knew that yasers threats were real, and amina knew that her going with yaser it was a one-way road, there was no coming back. she was afraid to die. and i would be too, you know. >> i never in the 20 years i was married to yaser saw any tears in his eyes. and he had a tear running down his cheek. and he kissed her on the forehead and said, "im glad youre home." he said were going to go eat and well be bac...

>> look at me. ooh. thats nice eye. [ laughter ] >> just kidding. >> my name is patricia owens. and amina and sarah was my girls. they were beautiful inside and out. i was really blessed when i had them. i never dreamed that i would get married at 15 years old and have my first baby at 16, which i would never change having my babies, but if i had it to do over with, i would have waited until i got older. we didnt know much about yaser. none of the family did, because tissie only knew him for a c...

Had boyfriends. >> around november the threats to her from yaser started getting more serious. >> he said dont get used to amina being around very long. youre not going to have a sister for much longer. >> and it finally all came to a head on christmas eve 2007. patricia was at work. and amina and sarah ran in crying and screaming. yaser had started waving a gun around at them, threatening to kill them because he had found out that they had boyfriends. and he was furious. [ gunfire ] >> yaser ha...

I mean, those girls lived in hell every day. could you imagine waking up to that every day? >> hi. >> hi. >> where is yours? >> me, amina and sarah, we had a very open relationship. and i knew that she had a boyfriend. >> when i married amina, actually, she had given up on her life. she had given up on her life because of all the threats, all the violence that was going on in her house. one of the things amina told me is i gave her hope. i gave her a reason to live. i gave her love. >> yaser, he...

Okay. if you knew my girls, you could have not forced them to do anything they did not want to do. >> i do not care what my niece says. in fact, that people knew that she was coming back, that is a lie. straight from the pit of freaking hell. >> amina was wanting to go to her boyfriends new years party. she went there. me and sarah, we was going to go to the grave site, to my moms, because she lives -- the grave site is like, from where we live, like an hour away. so the next morning we were goi...

And patricia agreed they were going to stay there, and there was no reason to come back. i got back to dallas, and the next morning i get a call from amina and says that were coming back. i was confused, because patricia had agreed that we were staying in oklahoma. >> we all talked about it, amina, sarah and myself, and we all agreed to come back, for amina to finish school and for sarah to finish her year out. then when school was over we were going to go back to the apartment in oklahoma. >> i...

>> later on that night, me and my dad were driving down the road. i noticed yaser with the girls in the car. yaser was driving. and amina was in the passenger seat. sarah was in the back seat. i can remember aminas face. she was scared. you know, she was afraid. i had sarahs number, and i called her because i knew amina didnt have her phone. i said hello, hello, and i hung up because i was afraid i could probably jeopardize their lives, you know, if he was trying to work things out. we followed ...

One of my cousins invited tissie along, and tissie said the kids and yaser are in egypt. she said i got a phone call from amina. she was all upset. yaser wanted to introduce her to a 45-year-old man that he wanted her to marry. and amina said she didnt want to be married to some fat old 45-year-old man. >> it was one thing to talk about oh, yeah, youre going to marry an egyptian someday. its another thing to go over there and see your dad has been planning this, and heres this house that hes bou...

>> amina felt very happy. and i remember a big smile. she was on to a new life. she really wanted her freedom. she was very brave. >> they rent an apartment. patricia and one of the boyfriends are able to get jobs very quickly. they buy a few furnishings, and for a day or two they decided, okay, yeah, this is going to work. tulsa is fine. >> the only problem with that run to oklahoma, the only hole in their plan was they took mom. ♪ >> i was talking to tissie, she