[…] a retelling of the incredible events which led to three bombings and two deaths in Salt Lake City on 15 and 16 October 1985, it is a fine piece of literature—deeply moving, cleanly written, […]
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[…] I was embarrassed by it. Two days later I left for Southern Utah State College in Cedar City, my hometown. I liked college life, but the hours of homework bored me. Occasionally, my mother […]
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We couldn’t find anyone in that inner-city maze. Between thick buildings
[…] he was saying. Converts in foreign missions tend to think that a Mormon community will resemble the City of Enoch, an illusion sometimes fed by Church publications. Although during our thirty-two years in the […]