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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — The airport was hectic as Ryan Watson and his wife were preparing to fly home to Oklahoma after celebrating his 40th birthday on the archipelago's white sands. A search of his duffel bag was slowing things down, but two of his friends who came along were ribbing him for it: He inadvertently left a few hunting rounds in the bag — a rookie mistake, but not a big deal, he thought.
Like Watson, she took the allegations lightly until their weight descended. She said she was handcuffed to a chair for three days because there was no empty cell available. 'I couldn't move,' she said. 'I couldn't flip over.' Watson said he had to find her. 'I knew what she was going through,' he said. 'This situation is wildly overwhelming. The complexity of it. It doesn't feel real.' Grier prayed for God to send her someone, a guardian.
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