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Show in my father's house/ 4 5 Chapter Three In my father's house resided a sort of pecking order. Everyone pretended that it didn't exist, that all was equal as stipulated in the United Order. In explaining why we should turn our earnings over, my father said the United Order and the Principle went hand-in-hand, that one could not work without the other. He promised to divide the total according to need, as Brigham Young had done in the Early Days. But inequity thrived nonetheless, in a thinly-disguised caste system among my father's wives. Long before I was actually told, I sensed the immense importance attached to each wife's place in the family. The system was partly based on the sequence of marriage to my father, But weak or selfless personalities suffered despite the verbal |
