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This is the second interview where I pick up from Lindsay Hansen Parks, initial conversation

with author, playwright, poet and screenwriter Carolyn Pearson.

Best known for her memoir, Goodbye, I Love You, an account of a mixed orientation marriage

to her husband, Gerald Pearson.

She's also known for the LDS musical, My Turn on Earth, and nearly 40 other works.

She joins me to discuss her latest book, The Ghost of Eternal Pilegamy, Carolyn Pearson.

Welcome to a thoughtful faith.

Thank you, Gina.

Great to be with you.

I love your mind and I love your heart and I love your voice. So it's a thrill for me to be able to speak with you. Oh, well, it's a

thrill for me and I have just concluded the book and I'm filled with it, just absolutely filled

with it. It's sitting in my soul. So I feel really privileged to be able to have this conversation

with you as I process some of my own feelings about this question, this ghost that hangs over

many Mormon women. So could I just say, begin by saying how affecting and affirming, but also how

saddening in the spellbindingness the book was. I found it triggered a lot of

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