Author: Scott Browne
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Check Your Premises
The Shins will change your life. Spoken by a young Natalie Portman in the cult indie classic Garden State, The Shins really have changed my life, providing a therapeutic soundtrack to my transition out of the church. They have always been a favorite band of mine (credit the impeccable music taste of my…
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I’m Still Angry
(original post found at www.mostlymormon.com) This is that angry letter you write and then tear up, only I’m not going to. Maybe instead I should go to the garage and beat on a punching bag or go shoot some guns, but I don’t own a punching bag and my newly developed liberalism has me…
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What it’s Like to Leave…
Brown patches in the lawn. Garden weeds. Melted bubble gum strings draped across my black car bumper. The nagging sting of a sunburn on my shoulders. Children shrieking at the cold water erupting from a sprinkler placed strategically beneath a trampoline. Proof that life has moved on. Proof that a…