<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Afterword on Sudden Day</title><link>http://suddenday.com/tags/afterword/</link><description>Recent content in Afterword on Sudden Day</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="http://suddenday.com/tags/afterword/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>After You Listen</title><link>http://suddenday.com/essays/afterword-after-you-listen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://suddenday.com/essays/afterword-after-you-listen/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;ve just heard the voices of people who have been dead for 180 years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And a woman whose name we never knew - &amp;ldquo;a departed spirit, once the resident of St. Louis&amp;rdquo; - who finally got to cry aloud.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="what-we-didnt-do"&gt;WHAT WE DIDN&amp;rsquo;T DO&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We didn&amp;rsquo;t attack.
We didn&amp;rsquo;t preach.
We didn&amp;rsquo;t embellish.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We amplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Expositor writers did the work in 1844. They documented everything. They signed sworn affidavits knowing it could cost them their lives. William Law had been Joseph Smith&amp;rsquo;s right hand. Jane Law had refused the Prophet&amp;rsquo;s advances. Austin Cowles had heard the secret revelation read aloud in the High Council.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>