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Paved With Good Intentions – Part IV

exmos_miki-larry, August 9, 2013

Arrived in Tucson, July 1983 – hotter than hell and – unknown to us at the time – our last stop on the path of Mormonism. Larry was still in the military and our first residence was in a local rental. We settled into our ward and it quickly became…

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Paved with Good Intentions – Part III

exmos_miki-larry, July 29, 2013

Picture it – Sicily – 1922. Sorry, that’s Estelle Getty’s line. FYI for the younger crowd – Estelle played Sophia Petrillo on the Golden Girls sitcom. But, we digress. Actually, it was Mt. Home, Idaho – summer 1981. The turmoil of the past eighteen months was behind us and we…

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Paved with Good Intentions – Part II

exmos_miki-larry, July 11, 2013

In our last episode, we intrepid converts were transitioning from Germany back to the states for Larry’s back surgery. Little did we know as we packed to leave that the next eighteen months would find us in four different states (geographical, not emotional). Getting back to the states was a…

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Paved with Good Intentions

exmos_miki-larry, June 30, 2013

With the release of Larry’s novel – Dark Deception – earlier this year, we’ve fielded numerous questions about our experiences as adult converts to apostates. Thanks to chanson, we have a chance to bring some of the highlights of our seven years in the LDS church to Main Street Plaza….

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