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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Worm Stories Podcast.

I'm your host, John DeLin.

It is July 15th, 2019.

Today we are going to be interviewing Michael and Donna Shoalalter.

Just to give you a little bit of a background, this interview is going to be at least in two

parts.

The Shoalalters are a family that have grown up and raised and strengthened their family

within a very Orthodox Mormon context.

Ending up after many years in Provo, Utah, in very conservative sort of East bench, Provo,

Utah, close to the temple and Donna even serving as a relief study president in Provo, Utah.

So this is a very traditional conservative Orthodox Mormon story up to a point.

So we'll talk about that briefly.

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