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Bill was born at Juniper Creek, a breakaway polygamy sect in rural Utah, to Lois Henrickson and Frank Harlow. As their eldest child, Bill helped welcome two siblings, a brother and a sister, only one of whom, Joey, still survives.
Soon after Bill entered the University of Utah, he met his future wife, Barb. Together, they became entrenched in the Mormon Church and were married in a traditional temple ceremony. The two graduated from college, Barb with her teaching degree and Bill with a business degree that served him well when he opened a small appliance store called Henrickson's Home Plus.
It didn't take long for them to have their first child, Sarah, followed by a son, Ben, a year later. They rounded out their family with Tancy ("Teenie"), a daughter born seven years later. The family shared a fairly conventional life for a decade, before welcoming Nicki, Bill's second wife, into the family. Bill and Nicki had two sons: Wayne, now 4, and Raymond, 3. Margene joined the family soon after as Bill's third wife, and quickly became pregnant with Aaron, now 1 1/2, and later Lester, now 3 months.
As his business started booming, Bill bought three adjacent homes in a Salt Lake City suburb and situated each wife in a separate house with her children. But after a failed store expansion, financial pressures at work and home threaten to topple Bill's balancing act. Hoping to free up cash, he fights to expel Roman from his business interests, but incessant family complications - and Roman's cunning tactics - keep impeding progress.
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