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“How Do You Say Thank You?” by Cynthia W. Connell

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This open-themed issue reveals the things our writers are thinking about, puzzling over, and processing without a specific prompt. Their voices invite us to reflect on what we, too, are going through at this individual

One day will we meet in heaven? Will you condemn me or embrace me? I hope we can hold each other — in sadness, in joy, in fullness.

I can already see how my daughter’s body is barreling toward its inevitable conclusion, like my body barreled before hers and my mother’s body barreled before mine and her mother’s body barreled before hers

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Just as the Savior’s efforts to heal were focused on those at the margins of his society, so our efforts at inclusion should focus on all of our Heavenly Parents’ children, but especially those who

Tell her who she is
slap a sticky label
around her humble head
shroud her ankles

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Eve was a serpent
until she tasted fruit.

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