and never did except when I worked with some men at Thiokol. They are some extremely good men who just happen to be mormon. I'd never been treated like that before or since. I went to visit one a week ago and just being with him did me so much good.
I was lucky to have a girl whose parents weren't active (one wasn't even mormon) as my best friend in elementary school. When we got to jr. high, we pretty much went our separate ways. She ran with the wild kids. I was a "mormon." I don't know what I would have done without her. Sad to say, she committed suicide about 5 years ago at age 57.
I was treated better in this ward than any other time in my life when considering going to church and not my job, but my husband is very well liked even now. I know I've said before that when I shared the mormon royalty list with my still mormon sister (though doesn't believe it), we laughed til we cried. We were the fringe element, though we had all the requirements to be mormon royalty. We laughed even harder when we realized that my husband is still considered mormon royalty. You have to see the way the women fall all over my husband even now knowing he is gay and all.
So it says something about mormons when I was treated better at church when I was attending with my gay husband who was cheating with men than at any other time.
I can't say I have a place I fit in. My family more than anything else and those men I worked with. My brothers. Let's say my brothers. My sisters. Oh my!!!
But going to the lds church was hell. I thought I had no other options.
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I never fit in the Mormon community. In some ways I never fit in anywhere.
What I have found, however, is that the Island of Misfit Toys is full of really strong, interesting, warm people--people like D&D. That insular community is where I want to be.