How do you come to be in the Mormon Church, and what gets you motivated to start writing a memoir?

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So I was born and raised in northern Utah, so I, um, I was born into the church and was baptized when I was eight.

Um, I followed the pathway very dutifully for, um, most of my-- all of my childhood and teenage years.

And, um, when I was twenty-one, I discovered things about the history of the church that led me to doubt my faith, and very soon after that is when I had a mental breakdown where I, I entered mania for a little while and then completely lost touch with reality.

And I was actually living in New York City at the time.

I-- As a teenager, uh, I, I didn't know how to express it, but I wanted to get away from the culture.

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