I struggled a lot with my reputation and the reputation of my family growing up… My family, particularly my parents, were well-respected in the church and overseas as missionaries. Everyone liked my family, and people would always comment on how “well-behaved” my brothers and sisters were. I guess you could say we had the “perfect” family. I struggled a lot with that. I thought that I had to live up to this reputation that my family supposedly had… no one was allowed to see my faults, my struggles, my downfalls. What would that do for the reputation of my family?

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