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Show 23 to Joseph to see my future home, and I took the train for Aurora and home. "In August John came again and I will never forget when he asked Mother for me. It was the first information on the subject that had been hinted to her, a disgrace for me not to have told her. I still felt the chiding she gave me for my first dating him. She wasn't so much in love with him as I was. He used tobacco, which was terribly against her taste, mine too, for that matter, but I knew he was a good, moral man, " is Mama's vast understatement. Grandma gave her consent with an ill-concealed breaking heart, feeling, no doubt that whe was sending her daughter down the broad and inviting road to Hell. Apparently he made a try at measuring up, but was promptly punished by the Devil at losing so faithful a disciple. "In September John came again to see me and stayed two days. In October he became very ill with sinus trouble contracted while he was cutting cedar posts in the snow. He had also had a very sick spell in June, but was so ill in October his life was nearly lost. "In November he came again and his hair was falling out. We were to be married December 20 in the Manti Temple. When he came for me in December his hair had fallen out to the last one and he was completely bald. " Before Yul Bryner's time this was a test of true love. "We didn't get married on the twentieth of December as we had planned. I had sent my recommend to Richfield for President Seegmiller's |