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==Question: What were Helen Mar Kimball's views on plural marriage?==
===Helen disliked plural marriage because of the difficulties it placed on her mother===

Helen made clear what she disliked about plural marriage, and it was not physical relations with an older man:

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I had, in hours of temptation, ''when seeing the trials of my mother'', felt to rebel. I hated polygamy in my heart, I had loved my baby more than my God, and mourned for it unreasonably….<ref>Augusta Joyce Crocheron (author and complier), Representative Women of Deseret, a book of biographical sketches to accompany the picture bearing the same title (Salt Lake City: J. C. Graham & Co., 1884).</ref>
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Helen is describing a period during the westward migration when (married monogamously) her first child died.  Helen was upset by polygamy only because she saw the difficulties it placed on her mother.  She is not complaining about her own experience with it.

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[[Category:Letter to a CES Director]]
[[Category:The Changing World of Mormonism]]

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