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SALT LAKE CITY — It was the winter of 1978 and Doug Wilks was sitting on the top floor restaurant of the Hotel Utah listening to his father explain why he was getting a divorce, leaving their family, and moving to London.
Wilks and his older brother, both students at Brigham Young University, had chosen this restaurant because they were unfamiliar with Salt Lake City and didn’t know where else to eat. There had been no intended symbolism in meeting here, but now, 10 stories up and overlooking the Salt Lake Temple, Wilks couldn’t help but note the cruel irony of this setting. His parents had been “sealed” in a temple like this one and that dream was over now.
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