"Oh, no, not in this small apartment," my parents said. You'd think I asked for a baby elephant. If we just got rid of my bratty kid brothers, there would be plenty of room. But just try telling that to my mom Then Dad decided we could squeeze in one little kitten, so we got Scratchy. She was smarter - and nicer - than my brothers, that's for sure. Unfortunately, she also got into even more trouble than the twins...First, she destroyed Mom's favorite plant, and then she got caught eating right off the dinner table. My parents got so fed up, they decided I had just two weeks to teach Scratchy...

"You'll love Camp Winnepeg," my mother said. "They've got swimming, hiking, sports..." Yeah. All that and Brenda Roman, too. I couldn't stand that prissy little creep And then when she ruined my plan to bunk with the boys - my real friends - I swore I'd get even. So we declared war. First she rooted for that jerk Jed in our tree-climbing contest. Then I caught her kissing one of the boys from bunk 9 and let everyone know about it. Next she slipped a salamander into my bed. And then - just when I was about to really get her good - she pulled the nastiest trick ever, and blamed it on me I had...

It's not like I went looking for a summer romance. It just sort of happened. Dave was handsome, smart, and he was planning to be a lawyer. I couldn't help but compare him to Lenny. As charming and dynamic as Lenny was, he had quit school and always seemed to be getting into trouble. When Dave and I were together, everything was easy. No fights, no tears... At least, that's how it seemed when we were working together that summer. But then it was over and I was back in the city...and so was Lenny. The powerful feelings between us hadn't faded, and wasn't about to settle for a part-time...

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Almost a half century ago, being in 1857, John Doyle Lee, a chief among that red brotherhood, the Danites, was ordered by Brigham Young and the leading counselors of the Mormon Church to take his men and murder a party of emigrants then on their way through Utah to California. The Mormon orders were to "kill all who can talk," and, in their carrying out, Lee and his Danites, with certain Indians whom he had recruited in the name of scalps and pillage, slaughtered over one hundred and twenty men, women, and children, and left their stripped bodies to the elements and the wolves. This wholesale...