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Show 39 BODY AND BLOOD It's six o'clock, time for dinner and Little House on the Prairie. I walk up the stairs as my mom is pulling some string beans out of the microwave. She asks me if I'll set the table while she gathers everyone for dinner, and I say yes. After my dad, brother and sister show up, she turns the television down for family prayer. I can see the television glare flickering off the silverware and windows, but it's quiet while everyone kneels down. My dad gives the prayer himself. He asks Heavenly Father to watch over my sister who is not with us today because she's in Price, Utah going to college, and says thank you for the food and the gospel and the prophet. I haven't figured out whether I want to say Amen at this point in my life so I just mutter something-not Amen, but not silence either. The dinner is a Mormon casserole featuring cornflakes on top of cheese potatoes and the episode is the one where Mr. Edwards ends up reluctantly housing a chimpanzee circus refugee. The chimpanzee's name is Rose, and she's a burden at first, spilling flour everywhere and pulling down the shelves in Edwards' kitchen. I've seen this one before and know that those two eventually develop a bond, but I don't feel like enduring the glares and dropped forks that come by asking if we can switch the channel two turns to the right and watch The |