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Organized a week long drunk with my friends.

Jeff A

We decide to go out with our friends that night, but end up at the same party. She’s talking with another guy that I couldn’t stand.

Followed my brilliant brother into atheism.

Javed

So I listen to them and they say, “If you have any problems, give us a call.” So I said, “Heck, let’s laugh at these Christians. “So I called them thinking I was going to make fun of them.

If I wasn't perfect, then I was trash.

Cody

If I found myself messing up in one of those areas, or if I found myself not knowing what to say in front of a group of people I would be like; “Man you’re such an idiot!

What would my free love, hippie parents think?

Carol

He kept using Bible verses, and I would say, “I don’t believe the Bible. Why do you keep quoting the bible? Why can’t you quote another book?”

State football champ with rejection issues.

Brian

"She thought I wasn't listening. But really I was."

Healed of the grade school ridicule from my defective brown teeth.

Ashley

.....that’s when I began to take the pain medication to numb the hurt on the inside.

Learning that my Mormonism was not Christian broke my heart.

Amy C

"I never realized the God that they serve is not the biblical God. The reason I didn’t realize it is because, as a Mormon, I never read the word of God."

Will I ever have friends?

Zach

... when I would come into the group everyone would stop laughing, and leave. I’m not saying that for pity. It’s just the way it was.

I had sold my body, but God called me a virgin.

Kelley

"I was dancing on a stage in Miami…. that’s when the Lord showed up."

They were stoned, but I was hearing a voice. God's voice.

Jones Beene

So I started playing the guitar, which came out of nowhere. I didn’t even know how to play the guitar at the time. I would spend every Friday and Saturday in my room at night just learning how to play and learning to sing wor...