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Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Marriage Has Many Pains

but celibacy has no pleasures.

In the Time of the Butterflies

I first met the Mirabal sisters in a book club.   I found them in the pages of Julie Alvarez’s book _In the Time of the Butterflies_.  It’s true that Alvarez took some liberties with their story: she added characters, changed certain events, and gave the sister’s distinct voices that may or may not accurately reflect who [...]

Things Fall Apart

“Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father.”—-Chinua Achebe, “Things Fall Apart” I have spent many years running away from the abnormalities of my family. Let’s just say that we didn’t fit the [...]

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