
Included in the diverse offerings of LDS paraphernalia at
Latter-Day Harvest bookstore in downtown Palmyra is a selection of Mormon-endorsed fiction. Our favorite of the collection is
A Modest Proposal, Book 1 in the Butterfly Box Series, your universal, looking-for-love story that fuses
The Ya Ya Sisterhood with Mormon morality. The main character, a Utah native, loves fashion and has moved to New York City to pursue her dream of designing modest dresses so that LDS girls and mothers will never have to again have the fight over those "too-skimpy straps" while prom dress shopping. Having suffered the husbandless fate of many New York women and unwilling to accept a life sans man, she returns to Utah to spend time with her girlfriends and collect herself. With the knowledge that Mormon engagements often come quickly, she keeps her eye out for the right Mormon single who may offer her "modest proposal." Ashby considered buying the novel, but sixteen dollars persuaded him otherwise. He purchased instead a Samuel the Lamanite action figure for $4.99.
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What is it about the "quick engagments" among mormons? My former mormon office mate had her first boyfriend at the age of 23 and felt the need to make out with him in the parking lot of Smyth Hall. They were married 2 months later.
I'll never forget the words of her advisor upon her application to a job in Utah: "going back to the mother land, eh". She gave no reaction.
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