Emmylou Coronado

Emmylou Coronado is Pamela Coronado’s daughter, still on the cusp of adolescence when she describes a home she has designed according to The Principle. Her brief appearance offers a precise glimpse of how plural marriage and the household order associated with it have entered a young person’s hopes for adulthood: she presents that future not as an abstraction, but as a house plan complete with rooms for wives and children.

Identity and Introduction

Emmylou Coronado introduces her design across the dining-room table, explaining that she made it on the Internet according to The Principle. Her account places her among the next generation of fundamentalists. The scene does not provide a wider biography or trace her later life; its focus is the future she imagines while still approaching adolescence.

The House She Imagines

The proposed house would be a single-story structure, eighty-five feet long and seventy-seven feet wide, built of rammed earth or possibly adobe. A central section would remain open as a courtyard. Emmylou Coronado assigns separate rooms to girls and boys, adds a nursery for young children, and identifies a father’s room as the master bedroom. She also provides separate rooms for two wives, with space reserved for a third.

These details make her design more than a general picture of a large family home. Its rooms arrange family life according to a particular religious ideal: a male head of household, multiple wives, and children divided by gender. The reserved third-wife room makes expansion part of the plan from the outset, rather than an afterthought.

Hope and Narrative Significance

As Emmylou Coronado guides her listeners through the design, her enthusiasm grows; by the end, her eyes are gleaming. The narrator identifies the plan as her dream home and the life she hopes to live when she grows up. The scene records her own expressed aspiration, without establishing what choices or circumstances will shape her adulthood.

Her carefully specified blueprint gives the community’s teachings a domestic scale. In the same account, separate bedrooms, a courtyard, and room for another wife become the material form of a future she regards as ideal. The scene’s significance lies in this clear transmission across generations: a religious principle appears not only as doctrine, but as a young person’s detailed picture of home.