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Introducing “The Visitors’ Center”!!

chanson, April 30, 2008

Have you ever heard people say “your body is a temple, not a visitors’ center”? Well now there’s a new blog for Mormons that asks the question “can’t it be both?”

It’s called The Visitors’ Center!!! Stop by and have a look at my post Unrealistic Expectations? which will be the first in my mildly titillating series on sexy Mormon vampires. 😉

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Comments (2)

  1. Guy Noir Private Eye says:
    May 1, 2008 at 5:52 am

    In matters of ‘deep doctrine’, Mos tend to simplify;
    In matters of the basics, the obfuscate and say things like say, regarding the Golden Rule: ‘it’s really not quite as simple as that’.

  2. Hellmut says:
    May 1, 2008 at 7:32 am

    I suppose, I am with the temple faction in this case. Although, I would switch the possessive pronoun from second to first person.

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