Thanks for the heads up but Banner is hardly a history, true or otherwise of the Mormon Church. It’s a very partial and slanted version that sold some books to those who already didn’t like organized religion.

[David B wanders off, muttering about specificity in word choice and other such things.]

The saddest thing was that she was desperate to get his
grandmother to understand that he and I are completly
divorced and their child [now in college] was completely
respectable and legitimate. Some of her friends and
most of her mother’s were married in polygamy.

Her husband dealt with money and the outside world so
she never would have considered it. Actually, we don’t
speak about these things, they are sacred to us, and
no, this wasn’t anything some lawyer just came up with.

We really don’t. Her desperate haranging of a very old
woman– It’s was like squeezing sand in your fingers–
the harder you squeeze, the less sand you have to hold
in your hand. His Grandmother knew that it was
her Grandson’s wife who wasn’t getting it, never
would.

She was yelling at me as she told the story. She
doesn’t beleive it, so what does it matter? There
is something between us hard and adamant as
diamond.

Why did we part–it’s so Talmudic. I got very, very ill
and he wanted a baby.