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Book Openers: Meet the Polygamist Family That Inspired TV’s “Big Love”

September 20, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Inspired Big Love: Alina, Vicki and Valerie with husband Joe Darger at the 2011 RNA conference.

I got a close-up look at the polygamous Darger family, three wives, one husband, who inspired the TV series “Big Love.” Read more.

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