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Picture of children playing on a large swing in Nevada
January 15, 2022

Swinging High

Kids play on a homemade swing at a 4,000 acre ranch in Pony Springs, Nevada. The ranch is home to members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous sect that was the subject of a story in the February 2010 issue.
Photograph by Stephanie Sinclair, Nat Geo Image Collection

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