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Show in my father's house/ 52 your father." Aunt Rachel, with her short, squat frame, looked like a giant hand had held her down during the crucial years when full growth is usually achieved. Even her face had a pushed-together look, nose edging toward her chin when she smiled and mouth slightly sunken, as though its usefulness diminished as years went by. Even when I was small, she appeared considerably older than her years, yet seemed undeveloped and childlike. She had been pretty enough before marrying and caught the eye of more than one patriarch -- old and young --in the Short Creek community that spawned her. Although Short Creek frequently showed up in the newspapers -- in 1935, in 1944, and again in 1953 as federal and local authorities conducted "polygamist round-ups" -- the residents led a primitive life in adobe or slat-board cottages with dirt floors, raising their own food and inventing their own institutions as best they could. Without adequate schooling and social life, Aunt Rachel spent a lackadaisical youth. Her twin sister had died when she was nine, her mother when she was eleven. Her father's first wife, who had no children of her own, took Rachel and eight siblings under her wing. But Aunt Rachel's father, John Y. Barlow -- Joseph Musser's predecessor -- fretted about his oldest daughter. Unlike most of his community, she displayed an indifference to religion, and a disturbing earthiness that |