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Show 218 charmed him with her turquoise eyes and the pink-gold of her complexion. We were in Los Angeles when Eldon married Vera Mortensen of Ephraim in the Manti Temple. Revo went on to get her teaching certificate, later bolstered by a B. S. in Education, and started teaching in the nearby towns. She, too, had survived a romance or two, one with a man she met while visiting us in California. He was well-read, well-educated, but outside the church. He had never seen a girl quite like Revo and was overwhelmed by her goodness and real beauty. When she went home the association petered out; Mama was afraid she would commit the unpardonable sin and marry him. It was a matter of crossed wires, and previous circumstances interfering. Much later she married a fine man from Richfield, Bryant Young, whose wife had died some ten years previous, leaving him with three little girls to bring up. The youngest was in her teens when they were married, the two older ones already married. Revo and Bryant had only the one little baby, Laura Susanne, who entered life and left it within one day. This baby had such outstanding beauty that all who looked upon it even in death felt angel-touched. Rachel and Grant married a sister and brother, Leo and Myrle Poulson, from Richfield, but neither romance escaped the chills and fever of premarriage anguish. Leo was Rachel's first real beau, almost her only one, but one night she went to a dance in Elsinore with another boy, hoping Leo, who was outstandingly jealous of her, would not find it out. Alas for such hope! The car in which she was riding hit a soft shoulder down by |