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etienne — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:21:41 +0000

LAST CHAPTER Chapter Thirty – My Afterlives: Old and New I was raised to believe that everything we did, every single action had an impact on our afterlife… All of our actions are being recorded in our own Books of Life by the angels, whom pay constant attention to us. Not only that, but each and every thought [...]

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etienne — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:49:03 +0000

Chapter Twenty-Nine – Can You Help a Trapped Gay Man? Part 2: My Take My Ex and I lived in a small town called Fort Morgan, Colorado about fifteen years ago… We lived in a shared a house that was divided into five apartments, and Shawna lived above us. I’ve kept in touch over the years, but [...]

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etienne — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:30:09 +0000

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Can You Help a Trapped Gay Man? Part 1: Letter from a Friend As I have been sharing my story, some of my friends have provided me their take on my situation. It has been tremendously cathartic, and interesting to see how people have interacted with me in various stages of my life [...]

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etienne — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:26:47 +0000

Chapter Twenty-Seven – The Ultimate Fall: Mormonism to Existentialism Sometimes people wonder how I went from faithful Mormon to a Secular Buddhist Pagan Queer… Mormonism threatens its membership to never “fall away”, not to lose their grip on the “iron rod”, a euphemism for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the biggest fear addressed in [...]

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etienne — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:20:24 +0000

Chapter Twenty-Six – Stumbling Upon the Poet Laureate: Ina Donna Coolbrith Mark Twain’s gentle face was on the cover of the Time magazine I began reading as we jetted towards San Francisco in August of 2008. My universal alignment would soon seem impossible to believe… The magazine had dedicated many articles to Twain, and I reveled in [...]

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etienne — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:51:32 +0000

Chapter Twenty-Five – Easing Up and Reconnecting My goal has been simplification. I realized that I had allowed myself to become buried under a ton of other people’s desires for me. I was doing everything to please everyone else… I had been raised to take on a myriad of roles: Faithful Mormon, Returned Missionary, Dentist, Heterosexual Eternal [...]

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etienne — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:16:14 +0000

Chapter Twenty-Four - The King of My Heart Rex in Latin means king… Last year I finalized a tattoo design and sat for three hours as the artist indelibly created my sign of my commitment to Rex on my upper right shoulder. It combined many different concepts, including a raw heart, a French crown, a banner with [...]

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etienne — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:19:34 +0000

Chapter Twenty-Three – A Completed Marriage: How We Co-Parent One thing that irritates the hell out of me is when Mormons and Christians tell me we “failed”, that we have a “failed marriage”. They say we have a “broken home”… You know what I say? Screw you! There’s not a thing broken about the way we manage [...]

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etienne — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:36:49 +0000

Chapter Twenty-Two – My Very Own “First Vision”: Sandy Grackle Redux On my mission to Spain was when I first realized the *phenomenon* of visionary Mormons… I knew before my mission how members would stand during Fast and Testimony Meetings and discuss their “visions”. I kind of wrote them off as kooky. But it seemed that everyone [...]

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etienne — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:40:11 +0000

Chapter Twenty-One – Experiencing Evergreen After I was directed to attend Evergreen meetings by my LDS Social Services Therapist, I threw my heart and soul into healing my broken self, my broken soul… We met at first in a church building, and then we gained approval to meet in the public library. Each week we met [...]

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