Personal Narrative: Southern Plural Marriages

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Growing up in a Southern Baptist home I didn’t hear much about plural marriages much until I got older and was able to read about it myself. In the last couple years it has just become an interest and I have always wanted to know more about it, not that I wanted to ever live by it. It just has always been interesting to me. How could one man keep up with so many women?
In 1976 a young girl escaped the polygamous cult that was based in Utah. She grew up hiding her identity because polygamist was against the law. If the welfare was to find out they would send their father to prison. In one of the stories I read, this young girl spent one winter in a chicken coop trying to stay warm under heavy blankets. Her mother married another man because

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