God would restore polygamy, and in the afterlife, I would be a plural wife.

recital

what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited, to what they are told by others.

“Holocaust.”

tinctures

The next name was Martin Luther King Jr. I had never seen his face before, or heard his name, and it was several minutes before I understood that Dr. Kimball didn’t mean Martin Luther, who I had heard of.

Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what

The number of my sister wives would depend on my husband’s righteousness: the more nobly he lived, the more wives he would be given.

I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant.