Friday, November 15, 2013

The blessing of polygamy

Mrs. Fay Hatch and Mrs. Pearl of Great Price Hatch said if they had it to do over, they wouldn’t (in secret and against the teachings of the church) tip a table to make contact with their husband Douglas and bring him back from the dead. Because now, of his own accord, what had he done but went back to the same schedule he used to hew to when he was alive? Monday Fay, Tuesday Pearl, Wednesday Fay, Thursday Pearl, Friday Fay, Saturday Pearl, Sunday at his mother’s house, Monday again with Fay and so on through the week. But now, of course, as a spirit or ghost, all he could do was, as you might say, haunt, make knocking noises, mischief or a nuisance out of his self. “But that is the blessing of polygamy,” Fay said when she told Hindle about it. “Only three days a week.”
     --From Variation West

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