Mary Isabella Horne, Flake says to the viewers, try expected to compare her expertise in polygamy on twenty-eight many years she had lived together with her partner monogamously.

“‘Plural marriage ruins the oneness, however,’” Flake estimates Horne as the claiming, “but to her that oneness got required ‘she try thus bound and therefore united so you’re able to their own spouse you to definitely she you certainly will do nothing versus him.’ Although it had been a great ‘trial out-of their unique feelings’ to reduce it, she you may today ‘look for specific advantages’ – particularly, ‘the woman is freer and will perform herself yourself something she never ever possess tried in advance of; and then make their unique private reputation as the independent regarding their particular spouse.’”

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