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ranchmama
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Elise
Rosebud
MT
USA
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 Posted - Oct 30 2008 : 3:40:14 PM
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I have been reading this book this week, got it on paperbackswap btw.. 
The author is Carolyn Jessop and her story about being born and raised into a polygmaist community. She married at 18 and became the forth wife of her husband and had 8 children. He had 7 wives and over 50 kids...
And I am just amazaed at what this woman had to go through on a day to day basis. The fighting and abuse and the struggles that her husband and sister wives caused her. She escaped with her children and had to fight to get them back I believe, I haven't read that far. But she has stood up to her husband and the leader of the community and she has such strength! The leader is Waren Jeffs, btw.. and she tells about the things he did to turn them into a cult, the rules he made and changes he forced. It is a real eye-opener and fasenating read.
Anyone else read it?
Elise
Every Child Deserves Our Love &
A Bear of Their Own
http://ATeddyForKeeps.org
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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ranchmama
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Elise
Rosebud
MT
USA
360 Posts |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Oct 31 2008 : 08:38:21 AM
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Sounds very interesting too.
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
http://princess-of-pink-creations.blogspot.com/
my new BLOG.
I have added "new" creations, take a look :)
And also some pictures of my village, come for a visit
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 31 2008 : 08:53:13 AM
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Mr. Warren Jeffs is presently in prison, having been convicted of having sex with an underage girl, among other things. All those women in plural marriages have a hard road to plow.
Betty in Pasco |
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vermont v
True Blue Farmgirl
194 Posts
Victoria
Chester
Vermont
USA
194 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2008 : 7:26:24 PM
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I read this book and loved it. I used to live near a polygamist Mormon community and worked with some of the women. The women were wonderful, hard working and family oriented and thrived against the odds they were faced with much like the lady in this book. I think Warren Jeffs belongs in prison and what he has done amounts to racketeering and abuse of women and children of the worst kind. I wish everyone in America would read this book! |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2008 : 8:58:06 PM
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Elise...I would LOVE to borrow it!! Do you have my address?
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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ranchmama
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Elise
Rosebud
MT
USA
360 Posts |
Posted - Nov 18 2008 : 1:46:37 PM
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ummmm I did, put I think I've thrown it away! It was awhile back that I sent that Aunt Jenny leaflet :)
Send it to me again, would ya?! I'll get it out asap
Every Child Deserves Our Love &
A Bear of Their Own
http://ATeddyForKeeps.org
http://ranchmama.blogspot.com/ |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Nov 19 2008 : 05:34:31 AM
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| I haven't read this one, but I did read Jon Krakauer's book on the fundamentalist Mormon cults, Under the Banner of Heaven. He touches on Warren Jeffs and life within these communities too. |
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