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The Right Person

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bride groom rose 210By Julie Wright
I don’t think boys realize that girls make lists. Not just any lists: important lists. We make lists of our friends, music we like, and most importantly what qualities we expect our future husbands to have before we agree to marry them. I had a list of my own, brimming with the perfections I expected my husband to possess.

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The Walk

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walk away rose 210By Ken Craig
Never, in all my youth, could I conjure up the image of the moment I would purchase an engagement ring. In my mind, the buying of the ring was The Final Step. And The Final Step to
The Final Commitment would be intimidating to most, would it not?

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A Bowl of Beans

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holding hands rose 210By Stephanie McMillan
Grammy and G.G., as my great-grandparents were affectionately known, married in the year 1929 and homesteaded a sheep ranch in the wilds of Montana. Their ranch on Big Sheep Creek was miles away from any other civilization. It was this picturesque but lonely mountain that served as welcome for my great-grandmother, Afton, a new young bride. She was eighteen when she married Lewis, a handsome young man who had stolen her heart.

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First Time, Then Eternity

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temple kiss rose 210By Katie Parker
There was something about the phrase “marriage for time and all eternity” that sounded incredibly blissful to me when I was a starry-eyed teenager. Surely when the magical day of my temple marriage arrived, my husband and I would be whisked into a peaceful future in our little cottage in the clouds. What else could marriage for time and all eternity involve?

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Wedding Reality

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wedding couple rose 210By Lu Ann Staheli
Think the word bride. What image comes to mind? A girl, probably mid-twenties, thin body, a perfect complexion, and unlimited resources to give her the wedding she’s dreamed about her entire—short—life.

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An Eight-Cow Marriage

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Cows 210by Krista Ralston Oakes
The term “sacred cow” is figurative, but it originates from the Hindu tradition of protecting the cow as a sacred animal.

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Book Review: Promises to Keep: Diane’s Story

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Promises 1208Diane is the member of the Thomas family from Dean Hughes’ best-selling Hearts of the Children series who left her abusive husband Greg to protect herself and her daughter Jenny. Hughes says the
question he hears most at book signings and other public events is, “What happened to Diane after she left her husband?” Promises to Keep: Diane’s Story (Deseret Book, $17.95, Softcover), a stand-alone novel and not a part of the previous two series, seeks to answer that question for readers.

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Noseless Ephraim marries anyway: Clarifying Marriage Records

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wedding invitation 1108By LaRae Free Kerr

A cousin wrote, “Ephraim Perkins, born 1795 in NC, son of Joshua Perkins and Rebecca Sherrill has 5 wives listed for him—Mary Stubblefield md 9 Aug 1817, Lucinda Rushing md 1817, Lucinda E. Livingston md 4 Sep 1845, Milly J. Holmes md 7 Nov 1854, Mary Wylie Moses md abt 1865. Some of the children of Ephraim are connected to more than one of these wives. Can you clear this up?”

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