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Show 10 »If I find out anymore, I ' l l be under obligation to live i t - and I don't want t h a t . " But there was a note of dead-seriousness in her voice which everyone, including Aunt Helga respected. Aunt Helga had contented herself with fasting and praying for them during her day off work from my f a t h e r ' s office. Meanwhile, Isaac ' moved to California to teach school and there met my f a t h e r ' s oldest son by Aunt Karen; the two men attended the same ward-house andAwere ftffaa^iw active in the Church. But >tohile Isaac- was delighted to meet his older brother, Foster, the older man was remote and p o l i t e , burying the history of b i t t e r n e s s s bequest, ed by h i s mother and grandmother. For years he had been t o l d that his father had run off to live true a life of l u s t and self-indulgence, hiding his'motives behind outlawed, outdated Church commandments. Despite F o s t e r ' s resentment he had followed in my f a t h e r ' s footsteps in one way, the only twenty-three mn ^ . , , . one of my father's'•sons to become a doctor- The friendship had not lasted long, for Isaac soon returned to Salt Lake City, moved by h i s testimony of the Principle; but i t had achieved one purpose: that of placing my father in contact with When they returned to Salt Lake, Sharon was s t i l l st set against the P r i n c i p l e , but her sweet nature made way for a change of h e a r t . She r e a l i z e d t h a t she could put herself in position similar to that of Aunt Karen /whom she had met a few weeks before leaving California. She t r i e d to imagine life without Isaac, rearing t h e i r many children alone. The future without him seemed so bleak that she began to pray for a testimony. One night she had a dream that she was giving |