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Hello, everyone, welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie,

pleased and delighted to be with you here today. And today I'm going to do something that I do very seldom, but sometimes when I'm pleased and delighted to be with you here today. And today I'm going to do something that I do very seldom, but sometimes when I feel really, really strongly about something, I just do it.

I am, well, before I tell you what I'm going to do precisely, I want to give you a little bit of a

backstory, some context. Nathan and I are in the process of creating an episode here on this podcast where we dig just a tiny bit deeper into the LDS Church and the under

reporting of child abuse. You can probably tell that I care a ton about this. I feel very,

very strongly about this as a mental health worker. And one of the things I've been kind of curious about and then sort of started studying up on it and then started talking to Nathan about it. And then next thing, you know, we're like on a long car drive. And now that we live in Southern California and the L.A. area, guess what? This is so exciting, at least for me. I have so many more

opportunities to talk to Nathan about books that I read and even to read books to him. So we were doing

this thing. And I just started sort of coming together with an outline that talks about

the five patterns that are visible or visible or that least are visible to me

that can be sort of seen and observed that explain why abuse is mishandled and underreported

in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And the reason why I wanted

to do this is because I want to make better sense of what's going on, how something can be so

seemingly obvious to someone from a different perspective and so sort of invisible to the

institution itself. And as you know, I do this because I care about the health and well-being of

all parties, of the people that are certainly the victims, first and foremost, but I even care

about the church and those who are part of this struggle from the side of the perpetrator that I want everyone involved all my

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