I was in the witness protection from 1973 to 1981 AMA

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Anonymous wrote:What did your grandparents think happened to you?

We told everyone we were going to take the deal beforehand.

Wait, what? I thought you couldn’t tell anyone?!

OP here. Well I remember sitting in our kitchen and my mom and grandma balling and talking about taking the deal or taking the time and kinda comparing each "sentence." I guess that could be dramatized in my head but I am pretty sure there was so discussion/review of each sentence.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for answering these questions!

- After you leave witness protection did you resume your old names? We went to a third party location and kinda eased into our old names and lives.

- Were you allowed to travel for vacation purposes outside of Nebraska during the 8 years? We had to submit forms when we traveled and it was granted like 50 percent of the time.

- What about out of the country? No, we had to turn in our passports.

- When you presented new paperwork to your schools, doctors, therapists did they question it? We had all our "papers" prepared for us by WP officials. We would call them when we needed something.

- Did you completely cut off all your friends as a kid? Did you tell any of them after you left witness protect? Yes we did completely. This was a different time though. I would have been tempted if email existed.

- Did any of you or your siblings use your witness protection experience for college applications?

. No none of us acknowledged it for years.

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Did your pets also have to change their names, and if so, was this traumatic for them?

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Were you able to reconnect with your grandparents and other relatives?

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Did you have a story to tell your new friends/classmates about where you lived before & why you moved? Are you married &/ a parent &, if so, when & how did you tell your spouse/kids’ other parent? How long would your dad’s prison sentence have been had he not taken the deal?

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Did you or your family undergo any plastic surgery and if so is it an improvement? Did you have to otherwise disguise your looks?

How and what are you doing now?

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HOw far away did they move you?

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Is there a Lifetime movie about your story?

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- After you leave witness protection did you resume your old names? We went to a third party location and kinda eased into our old names and lives.

What is your legal name now? The old name or the WP name?

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Op here. No one got plastic surgery!!! My mom drastically changed her hair color and cut and my dad shed 40 lbs and kept it off. He may have grown facial hair in the beginning too. We eventually got back in contact with relatives but my parents never once went back to our home state. My siblings and I kept our WP names. My parents went back but my parents always called us our birth names inside the home. My dad's sentence would have been 22.5 years min served. No pets.

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Op here. Husband and close friends know about this time of my life. I'll tell my kids when they are older.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a Lifetime movie about your story?

Lol no! There are a lot more WP's than you realize. Or were at least. My dad's case was not particularly newsworthy.

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Were you able to dance to DISCO in a club during your teenage years?

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Did you quality of life changed significantly? Was it penthouse to walk-up apartment?

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^your