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Okay, the final point that you included in your letter was about polygamy and

polyandry. Why don't you go ahead and talk to us about what points you were

making there? Well, Joseph Smith had at least 34 wives, but what really, you know,

and I always thought that Joseph Smith may have practiced polygamy. I mean, I

knew it was it was a big thing with Brigham Young and you know, and a few

prophets after that, but I didn't know how big it was with Joseph Smith. And so

as I started looking into it and realizing that he had that many polygamous

wives and and then seeing him constantly covering it up and lying about it, it

wasn't something that he was owning, you know, and and and so that that was a

red flag for me, but probably the biggest thing was when I learned about

polyandry. I had never even heard of that word before. I'd never heard it

spoken in in church. And I actually had to look up the definition, but what it

is is a man that marries another man's wife. And so Joseph Smith had 11, I

believe, polyandrous marriages as well. And several of those were too

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