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A Broken Shelf of Symbolic Beliefs

@Monya_PostMo, May 6, 2024May 6, 2024

Thirty years ago, long before the CES letter (heck, long before Facebook), I sat beside my brainy boyfriend* as he asked probing questions of two earnest nineteen-year-olds from Utah. He’d been reading the Book of Mormon but not feeling its spirit. How could there be elephants in America, he wanted…

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