American - Historian | 1986 -
There is a certain panic, at least if you're raised Mormon, to being single at 31. But what they don't tell you is that it can also be kinda great.
Tara Westover
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Not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. I knew I'd been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn't fall on a Sunday because it's no fun spending your birthday in church.
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All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho.
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Although my family attended the same church as everyone in our town, our religion was not the same. I could stand with my family or with the gentiles... but there was no foothold in between.
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I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. 'Educated' is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family.
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I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better.
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I adore Toni Morrison. I think we would all be better writers if we read more of her.
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