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BOD: Men and women are in separate dormitories. Housing for couples who meet and marry within the church is limited. Many are put on a waiting list and required to live separately until shared living quarters become available. Visits by outside family members often are restricted and monitored. Gary Martin of Tampa learned this when a female relative accepted the ministry's help and lived at Deeper Life for eight months about two years ago. Martin said his relative was emotionally damaged by her experience and doesn't want to be identified. She now is enrolled in school, has a job and lives with another family member. ``She had some problems; that's how she ended up there. But I can tell you she only got worse,'' he said. Martin said he was allowed to visit her once a week and could bring her only $5 worth of quarters for spending money. When he visited the church grounds, Martin said, he was disturbed by the number of men wearing what appeared to be two- way radios with earpieces and lapel-attached microphones. He took the men to be security guards, he said, because they appeared to shadow new recruits. The men also are visible at the church during Sunday and weeknight services. The church doesn't use gates or physical restraints, Martin said, but ``there's an emotional imprisonment.'' Two months after his relative arrived at Deeper Life, she was ``married off, just like that,'' to a man who was practically a stranger, Martin said. Hillsborough County court records confirm the marriage. Martin said she now is seeking a divorce. Quick marriages are common at Deeper Life, former members say. Relationships typically begin when men and women are paired off for Bible study. Jefferson blesses such arrangements, former members say, and many couples marry within months. Bradley, who wanted help to attend his daughter's funeral, is a former addict. He met and married his wife, Janice, also an addict, at the church. Even though they have since left the church, they credit its spiritual guidance and discipline for helping them stay clean. Bragg, who remembers the mice from her first night in member housing, also met her husband, Lawrence Decker, at Deeper Life. Theirs was a less typical union. She and Decker, a two- year resident, went to the courthouse on their own a few months after meeting and were married. ``We didn't need anyone's permission to be together,'' Bragg
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