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Shaun Anderson

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The Promise

Submitted to Contest #301

Note: This story contains a brief mention of sexual violence, suicidal ideation, and mental health. As President Cook stepped into the church gymnasium filled with missionaries in their black suits and white shirts, gossiping around twelve or so round tables, I knew he was looking for me. I sat at a table near the door President Cook entered through, pressed in between two larger, toned missionaries who had lived in Southern California for months longer than I had. Their experience, their body mass, their overall worthiness to be here as Mo...

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