I’ve seen them.I’ve walked with them.The ones who forget themselves to survive—I was one of them. I drifted so far I couldn’t hear my own name.Not in his songs.Not in the mirror.Not in the silence I mistook for peace. But I don’t listen to his songs anymore.And when I do… I hear them differently now.Not…
Let’s talk about Fannie Alger. The official LDS narrative claims she was Joseph Smith’s first plural wife. A sweet sealing. Spiritually sanctioned. All tied up in a little bow like the Relief Society lesson manual wants you to believe. But the truth? It was a scandal. This was the early 1830s, years before Joseph ever…
I wasn’t a Jack Mormon wife. I gave everything to the Church—my music, my dance, my devotion. So when I left, I didn’t rebel from the outside. I broke the code from within.