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About 15, 20 years ago, Mission I decided we no longer believed in our religion.

And we had a plan.

We were going to go and fake it until our last kid left our house 16 years later.

I'm so thankful for so many people here and I will say especially John and Markey for

helping us realize that we could move on.

We could have a great life after more feminism and we weren't alone.

You know, I will probably never talk in front of another group that I admire as so much

either.

People in this room, we once thought we were extremely right about something and we had

the courage to look and to make the hard decisions it took to be authentic and to decide maybe

we weren't so right.

I think that says a lot about everyone in this room and I'm very humbled and proud to

stand in front of you.

So Maya Angelou said, you are only free when you realize you are brave to, sorry, that

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