Thanks to this thread, I just YouTubed some old Donny and Marie stuff. I'm familiar with the Osmonds, not so much their work... Not super impressed, but then again, not my generation, either.
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Not myself, but a close family member. She was a huge fan in her teens, which leads me to speculate that this was the reason for her subsequent conversion.
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That's for sure... I'm actually in the process of "time off" right now. I'm just worried about what happens when we come back around again. Most of the time, I do my best to avoid breaching the topic. No one LIKES getting chewed out, after all. But it never fails that she will eventually bring it up. It's hard not to react when she blames my illness (I have an autoimmune disorder), on
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I ended up reposting it to the Biography board and posting a smaller, more to-the-point issue on this one. Thank you for the kind words and advice and help with message-board confusion :)
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Hello all! I just started posting on this forum for the first time last night by posting my entire LDS history on the Recovery Board... My bad! Hopefully I don't get carried away with this post, but it's a complicated issue that weighs on me greatly. A little background... I'm a 30-year-old BIC apostate. I officially left TSCC when I was 16 years old, but I've had my doubts since early chil
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Hello! I posted this whole rant on the other board when it was best placed on this one... Oops! I've found this website a few months back, and I'm really glad I did. I'm even more glad now that I've summoned the courage to share my own story. It's kind of a long one, I'm sorry! I am a 30-year-old BIC, and I officially stopped attending TSCC when I was 16 years old, although I hadn't really bel
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Do you think I should? Still getting the hang of all this lol
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Thank you so much for responding :) I worried if my post was too long for anyone to want to read, but it really feels good to vent. I got a little carried away... Thank you for the links! I've tried directing my mother to mormonthink.com and showed her several accounts from this forum describing similar experiences to mine, but she makes it kind of hard because she's fighting it the whole time,
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Hello! I've found this website a few months back, and I'm really glad I did. I'm even more glad now that I've summoned the courage to share my own story. It's kind of a long one, I'm sorry! I am a 30-year-old BIC, and I officially stopped attending TSCC when I was 16 years old, although I hadn't really believed in it since I was 9, maybe 10 years old. I was even younger than that when I was face
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