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Hello there. Wow I swear I'd never get a blog. I claimed that it would confine me to the mold of a stereotypical mormon teenage girl. But then I thought what is really holding me back? Nothing. So now I'm here blogging away to my heart's content. So welcome to Words Unspoken.

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