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After 180 years, Brigham Young's "desert rose" prophecy faces the music.
Taking a Gander
When I was a kid in New York City, my mother frequently read to us from Mormonism’s most authoritative historic texts. By the time I was finished with grade school, I knew it all backward and forward, from the single event that started it to the then-present day.
But over the years, I came to understand that a significant part of a religion’s history is the legendary embellishment that makes the story even more impressive.
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