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I was surprised when my uncle (who once called my mom an "elect piece of merchandise," and encouraged me to be good to my wife because "she's the most precious thing you own") told me how happy he was when he heard. He was at a son's baseball game and the rumors started to swirl in the stands (little Mormon town). I guess his bigotry ends at gender.Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.
"Cog dis is a bitch." -James Patterson
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Originally posted by Sleeping in EQ View PostI was a kid, but I remember my dad coming home from work all excited and emotional. He had a tear or two as he told us what had happened. But then he was a democrat.
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostI was 17. I don't recall anything but happiness and relief. But I do recall hearing stories about disgruntled members, especially in the south. I know a guy who was a bishop in the south at the time and he says that he lost a few members.Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.
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I don't remember anything but awesomeness surrounding the change. I too heard stories of dissenting saints, but we are a people prone to producing fables.Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."
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Originally posted by BlueK View PostI remember it being a Saturday afternoon when we first heard on the car radio. My parents were happy. We lived in Provo and I remember when we got home and a neighbor saw us getting out of the car and asked if we'd heard yet. She was just as excited.
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Originally posted by mtnbiker View PostActually, it was a Friday, June 9. I was in a truck with a buddy delivering irrigation pipe when we heard the announcement on the radio, and we both either had our mission calls or received them the next week. We thought it was pretty cool and were in the MTC when the first AA missionaries came through. Everyone I knew was excited; I don't remember seeing anyone upset with the announcement.
I got my mission call on a Thursday and the announcement came the following day. I remember talking about it that night with my non-member girlfriend on the way to the MKC Dog Track, and how happy I was that I wheeled PL Greer in a quinella and won $40. We stopped at Pizza Caboose on the way home, and had a Caboose Special. It's still in business 36 years later.Last edited by clackamascoug; 11-20-2014, 11:08 PM.
When poet puts pen to paper imagination breathes life, finding hearth and home.
-Mid Summer's Night Dream
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