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Okay, welcome to Mormon Stories book club. The last time we were talking, we were talking

with Rachel Held Evans, the author of a year of biblical womanhood. And we talked to Rachel

about some of her life experiences and we talked about her book and kind of what she had

learned from it. And then we decided that we were going to do sort of another segment

with just us, so we were going to talk about how the book relates to Mormonism and what

connections there were or what similarities there are, what differences there are. I

know I felt like when I was reading it, there were lots of things where I was like, oh

my gosh, yes, this is just like Mormonism. But then there were other things where I was

like, that's totally not like Mormonism. Or we sort of do that, but it's a little bit

different anyway. So we're going to tease that out. So I've got Aaron Hill here. Aaron,

you want to say hi? Hello. And Stephanie Lawrence and Stephanie say hi. Oh, Stephanie.

Stephanie. Okay, can you hear me? Yes. Okay, I can hear you now, but I was saying,

Stephanie say hi and we weren't hearing anything. So I did that thing you told me, but

apparently didn't work. But now I'm here. Hi. Oh my God. Stephanie's here. No, we're

good. I know I was like, she was just here. We were talking. Okay. So I wanted to read

a little thing in the intro. There were so many things really in the book. I really

hope people read it because it's a really cool, really not just cool. There's parts of

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