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When many of us is Mormons, think about 21st century polygamy.

We often associate it with what we see on TV or read in the newspaper.

Next year old men taking 13-year-old childbrides, incest, wives being reassigned to other husbands,

welfare fraud.

Basically, we think about the most egregious examples to come out of the isolated, closed

communities of the fundamentalist LDS Church, led by Warren Jeffs.

And while this ugly side of polygamy definitely exists, it is not the complete picture.

Members of the FLDS Church make up less than one-third of all Mormon polygamists.

Many of them live in suburban Salt Lake City neighborhoods, dress in modern clothing,

hold modern jobs, and in some cases even attend the LDS Church Awards.

On today's Mormon Stories podcast, and while discusses polygamy gone wrong and polygamy

gone right, the ugly and the beautiful sides of polygamy from her experiences, both as

a practicing polygamous and as a friend to literally hundreds of polygamous families

throughout Salt Lake City and Utah.

Your story today on Mormon Stories.

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