IreneSpencerBooks.com

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Irene was twenty-three and already had five children when this photo was taken.
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Irene Spencer was born February 1, 1937, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family- the 13th of thirty-one children. Her mother was the second of her father's eventual six wives. It was no surprise she found herself, at sixteen years of age in a plural marriage, sharing her husband with a half-sister.

Enduring abject poverty, living in isolation, and suffering the neglect of a husband with divided loyalties to 10 wives, created unbearable conditions. Irene mothered 14 of her husband's 58 children. Through all of this, she managed to overcome these impossible odds to seek a life that she believed would be better for her and her children. She made the bold step into the "outside world" and into a freedom she never knew existed.