Hell Yes I Am A Mormon Girl

He told me he wouldn't read my blog simply because I was "too good of a Mormon girl to know anything about real life, and you need to, to be a good writer".

I am a Mormon girl. I might even go as far as to say I am a good Mormon girl.

I am a Mormon girl who just spent the last week going home from work to feed my sisters before heading to the hospital to spend the night with my mother who is recovering from her 58th surgery in the last 12 years and can't be alone while my father works.

I am a Mormon girl who has been supporting a family of six while going to school for the last year because my dad decided he needed to follow his dreams and those dreams left him flat on his face with four kids and a wife and when faced with giving up or asking for help he trusted me enough to help him get through.

I am a Mormon girl who sat down stairs and got drunk for the first time ever with a stranger, not knowing that my friend was being raped in the other room. I am a Mormon girl who went to the pharmacy the next morning and bought a day after pill and kept a secret because she told me that it was her idea.

I am a good Mormon girl who spent most of my freshman year sick in bed because I was slowly starving myself trying to be good enough for parents who didn't notice until I weighed 86 pounds and realized I had a problem and told them I needed help.

And I am a Mormon girl who still managed to get healthy again even after my mother decided that she was going to stop me from getting there.

I am a Mormon girl who was dumb enough to think a boy loved me even after he hit me and who was naive enough to believe a boy when he told me I was the only girl in his life. And I am a good Mormon girl who still believes in love with all of my heart because I found it in the boy next door.

I am a Mormon girl who quit counting the days my mom spent in the hospital when it was more than enough to add up to a few years and can tell you all the pros and cons of any hospital in northern Utah.

So yes, I am a Mormon girl. But don't you dare try and tell me I don't know about real life because of it. I know all about real life, good and bad, and that is why I am a Mormon girl.