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Show in my father's house/ 8 2 on earth, coming home to so much...so much love. We kissed our children goodnight, and ate gingerbread with whipped cream and played pinochle, then tiptoed back to kiss our sleeping babies. Oh, it was good to be home!" About two weeks after their release, my mother received a letter from a widowered doctor, inviting her to live with him and care for his two sons. "Refuge, I think he called it," my mother said. "But of course I didn't want to go. I wouldn't want to be anyplace on earth but here with your father and my loved ones. I wrote and told him 'No thank you.' And that was the end of it." But not the end of it for fifteen patriarchs charged with felony crimes: unlawful cohabitation, distributing obscene literature through the U. S. mails, violating the Mann Act and the Lindbergh Kidnapping Act by transporting women across state lines. All charges against the women soon vanished, but the courts prosecuted the men with enthusiasm. The Church helped put teeth in the original anti-polygamy legislation which at first stood as a simple misdemeanor punishable by fine or at maximum a six-month sentence. But Church President Heber J. Grant -- himself arrested and fined for living polygamously so that he disowned his plural families -- had stated, "I shall rejoice when the Government officials put a few of these polygamists in the State Penitentiary." He added, |