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Show 1** "You saying your f a t h e r is a r a t ? " He grinned. T blushed furiously in the darkness. How could he tease at a time like t h i s , when I was trying to talk about something an _- sensitive. "No! What I meant i s , if i t happens with so • nimals, then i s n ' t there a chance i t would happen with human beings, as well? God i s governor of a l l nature, after all. And my family believes that the Principle is a divine man's . . . plan for * salvation - l i t e r a l l y , meaning survival - as well as s p i r i t u a l l y . " Brian shrugged. "Maybe. But i t ' s a lot of responsibility, and that could make i t hard to survive. Your father doesn't have an affair and then take off. . "Exactly! That's why a man must become strong to live the Principle. All the things that most people think are bonuses - l i k e l o t s of women, you know - are actually burdens. But a man gets strong, carrying them. He has more space in past, present and future. . . Brian said nothing. I took a deep breath and plunged onward. "lou Know, if you ever f e l t you had to have another woman, t h a t ' s the way „-p rnri But you'd have to have her - legitimized in the eyes of God. to take care of her and give her children, just as you do me. And we'd have to be close, in agreement about everything. I'm... . . . "But I ' d rather I'm not saying I want t h a t , " I added h a s t i l y. +QiHr«r care of her and making her you had a woman t h a t way - taking cax« apart of our l i v e s , part of the whole, than that you had an a f f a i r . Affairs are •i li ilpe g^ iittiimmaattee . You, of a l l people, ^ the eves of society and should know t h a t . They're wrong in tne y A („ inqs whatever way they in the eyes of God, and they end in loss, w +h - of a kind. i a go. But p l u r a l marriage produces growxn |