Item Detail
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26822
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English
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Immortal for Quite Some Time : Part 2 (after the autopsy, after the funeral, after AIDS)
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2011
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44
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3
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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121-137
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Abbott recalls the memories of his deceased brother, John, while on a mission to Europe by presenting some excerpts of his letters sent to them. Here, he tells that he never achieved any such position like his brother did. For a European missionary, his brother had remarkable success, baptizing whole families and several single people. And him helped teach only one woman who was baptized, and until the final hour it was nip-and-tuck whether she would choose Mormonism or the Jehovah's Witnesses. After the mission, his brother attended BYU for a while, trained to be a chef in the kitchen of the Hotel Utah and worked in restaurants in Houston, San Diego, and then Boise. One of the medical forms from the Boise clinic where John was treated twice in the weeks before he died said that he denies homosexual activity.