Posted by:
donbagley
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Date: June 19, 2018 06:59PM
How to define the glow? Here's how I see it.
My older sister, who once wrote here at RfM and introduced me to the works of the Tanners, just got married at the Mormon temple in St. George, Utah. She lives in the Sacramento region, which has its own temple. Why marry in St. George? It just happens to be the town my parents moved to with their two adult daughters. My father bought three large houses there, one for him and my mother, and the other two for his two faithful Mormon daughters. He financed businesses for their husbands, spending who knows how many tens of thousands. His non-Mormon offspring received no "blessings." We were spurned, my older sister included.
After the death of her third husband, my older sister moved to Woodland, CA to be near her daughter and grandson. But something went wrong. Something like three marriages going wrong, I expect. My older sister couldn't get along with her in-law family, as had happened with all her marriages. Though retired, she moved away from her own daughter and grandson. This caused some hard feelings, I'm sure. What to do? It occurred to her that she could appease her aging cult parents. All she had to do was proclaim me and my brother apostate scoundrels and lasso up a husband. But it had to be a Mormon husband, though he be an old loser from the anus of Pennsylvania she found online. Whatever he was, he was fodder for Mom and Dad's attention.
A whirlwind romance ensued, carefully scripted to display respect for Church Dad, who has a pile of money. My older sister married in the temple, and local Mormon family showed up. They dined in high style at the Olive Garden restaurant, and wished the blushing bride and her back country groom all the best. How beamish with righteous pride was my sister. How accepted by cultists and blessed with fresh opportunity! That's the Mormon glow, right there.