""As I've gotten older knowing that I can have a great relationship with God and Jesus," she told NPR. "I don't have to be this perfect example of a Mormon.""
""I started there to kind of give people a summary of what's to happen. If anything, for me, it's almost like a trigger warning for people to know, like this is going to be rough," Neeley told All Things Considered host Juana Summers."
""It's going to be able to relate to so many different people who have gone through something similar.""
"I feel like I've always been a really curious person and I do feel like I got most of that curiosity out during my college years. I take what I want to take and then I leave some other stuff that doesn't really feel like it applies to me in my life."
Macyi Neeley, a reality show figure and #MomTok influencer, opens her memoir with the day she learned her college boyfriend had died while she was pregnant. She uses journal entries to document sexual assault, an unplanned pregnancy, and sudden bereavement while maintaining membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She describes negotiating curiosity about off-limits topics and choosing which religious practices fit her life. She reports developing a personal relationship with God and Jesus without striving for a flawless example of Mormonism and hopes the story connects with others who faced similar trauma.
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