Posted by:
slskipper
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Date: May 14, 2020 06:37PM
Did everybody here grow up with the Especially for Mormons series? For those who don't know, it was a set of five? six? softbound tomes filled with sentimentality- feel-good stories, fables, poems and inspirational quotes. I never understood why it was especially for Mormons and not Lutherans or Quakers.
I also didn't like the way it was held up as the only suitable response of Mormons to life. That was one more reason (of many) I felt left out. While my friends were reading Catcher in the Rye I was stuck reading about how some girl found self esteem by praying on a warm summer's evening overlooking a field of wheat. With children laughing nearby. Or something. Oh- and the horrors of Vietnam were unfolding all around us too- except in Mormonville.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/14/2020 07:15PM by slskipper.