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Show 19 party. He was a model escort, very considerate, quiet, sensible and easy to converse with. He was very attractive to me. I felt as though I had always known him. "I soon fell very much in love with him. I stayed in Kanosh two months, even though my work with Mrs. Hopkins was over in three weeks, and was not anxious to comply with my mother's wishes to come home to go to school. I stayed with my Aunt Jane and her family of lively children. Finally, I knew I must go home and John offered to take me. "I was pleased to introduce him to my mother, but imagine my disappointment when Mother scolded us both. She asked him why he didn't get a girl in Kanosh, and chided me for taking up with an older man instead of one of my own age, as I had plenty of chances with the nice boys in Oak City who might make me happy by living near my family. "Dear Mother! She stopped me talking of John, but didn't stop the love that was building within me. We corresponded, but our letters were few and far between. We would see each other about once a year. He took other girls out, and I would go out with other fellows, but I never felt the same with them as I did with John. " What slim chance that Mama could find happiness with one of the home town boys was doused when Grandma, who was a "polygamy widow" sold out her home and land in Oak City and moved to Aurora (Wilier Bend). Grandpa Rawlinson, some years before, had elected to give himself up to the United States Marshalls who were roaming the Territory of Utah, |