There Is No Such Thing as Half

November 10, 2009 by Joanna Brooks

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You are not half. You are a whole soul living in a divided world. The team with enough love, joy, justice, wisdom, and righteousness to claim you will win. It wins because it gets you.

This article was previously published by Killing the Buddha and is reprinted under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Joanna Brooks grew up in an orthodox Mormon household in the orange grove Cold War suburbs of southern California. Now she's an award-winning scholar of religion and American literature living in San Diego and working on Mormon Girl: An Unorthodox Memoir of Belief and Belonging. Find her at askmormongirl.blogspot.com.

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