"How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history."

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Source : Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

Joanna Brooks

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