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Dfens ago

I grew up in southern California and went to high school with a relatively large Mormon population. During senior year I became friends with a Mormon girl whom I’d known from afar all four years of high school, because she was from a prominent family of 13 children. -- http://archive.is/QUXKX (originally Huffpo)

Ok, this is weird and the rest of the article is about something not really relevant but here's a case of a prominent Mormon family with 13 children living in Southern California. It's not enough to say there's a trend, but it could be something.

Dfens ago

Hmm, here's another reference to a similar thing with a fundamentalist Mormon polygamist group that have 13 children:

Enoch Foster visits with several of his 13 children from two wives in their cave-home in Rockland Ranch, on November 2, 2012. -- https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/11/polygamists-in-the-rock/100406/

Also, the number 13 is very prominent in Mormonism, as you'd expect given their ties to Freemasons.