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February 9, 2013

How to Love a Former Uber-Mormon

Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune

For years, Matt Duff was an über-Mormon.

At 17, he ran away from home and moved in with the only black LDS family in his New England town. Two weeks shy of his 18th birthday, he joined the Utah-based church. By 19, he was on a Mormon mission in Denver, and two years later he enrolled at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where he met his future wife, Kylee, a multigenerational Mormon with a winning smile and a guileless faith. The two married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.

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