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Happy Endings and Beautiful Beginnings: A Woman Abducted a Decade Ago Finds a Soulmate

24 Jan

Elizabet h Smart and Matthew Gilmour, seen in this photo from Facebook on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, are engaged to be married this summer.

 

Just as one marriage spoils in Hollywood, another ignites among a youthful couple.

Elizabeth Smart, the Utah native who was kidnapped, held captive, and sexually assaulted by  homeless street preacher Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee in 2002, is now engaged at age 24.

Good Morning America reported that Smart and the soon to be groom, Matthew Glimour, 21, plan to make it official this summer.

Glimour, from Scotland, met Smart in the south of France soon after he lost his father to cancer.

Both are members of the Mormon religion, and rumor has it that the couple met at a Latter-day Saints mission in France.

This happy ending proves time a time again that darkness always comes before the light.