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In this chapter, I describe Sarah’s story, beginning with her childhood in an AUB polygamous family living in Northern Utah. Prioritizing Sarah’s voice, I describe her life inside and outside of polygamy, highlighting the academic and non-academic experiences that inform understanding of her readiness for higher education. Sarah’s descriptions of her formal education experiences and non-academic experiences contributed to her readiness for higher education settings; yet, because she did not perceive a need for higher education, the impact of those factors on her readiness for higher education was limited.
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Being “sealed” was the process of formally connecting Sarah’s older sister to her father so that they could be together in heaven. This practice is still in use by the LDS Church as well as other Fundamental Mormon polygamist communities, who use sealing to bind wives to their husbands when they cannot be bound legally because it is illegal, and has been used as punishment by certain fundamentalist communities for men they view as unworthy, taking their wives and children away from them and sealing them to another man.
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Parson, L. (2019). Sarah’s Story. In: Polygamy, Women, and Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02798-8_4
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