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I'm so happy to welcome Amanda to the podcast today.

Welcome, Amanda.

Thank you.

I'm so excited to be here.

I'm looking forward to talking with you. What is your question for me today?

Okay. So my junior year of college, I was sexually assaulted when I very first came back to school. And it really changed my life.

Yeah. You know, it was only a couple years ago. Um, and it did a lot of

really, um, good things for my life and for my future. I wouldn't say I'm, it's a trial. I

wouldn't say like, oh, I'm grateful I went through this. Right. Um, I wouldn't frame it like that.

But it really did like change a lot of my values and a lot of what I want to accomplish out of life.

But something that was hard for me coming back, I mean, being an active member of the church and talking to, you know, friends and family who are part of the church or like bishops, I got a lot of people brought up forgiveness a lot really fast

and it was a long it ended up being like this long process right it wasn't just like one event

um it kept going as i did like an investigation and all this stuff so it was a long like part of my

life yeah and you know i'm still of course like i'm still like i'm still like, part of my life. Yeah. And, you know, I'm still, of course,

like I'm still, like, I'm still, like, suffering some of the consequences from it. But, so I felt like

I was having big things happen and I needed people to be angry. I needed people to just be

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