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Limits and swearing

September 9, 2008 by Peter Fletcher

Armstrong describes the first time she uses the word “fuck”.

On March 12, 1997, ten minutes after opening a rejection letter from the admissions of one of BYU’s graduate programs, I stood up next to the open window of my bedroom and shouted, “FUCK!” for the first and most precious time of my life. It was a euphoric rebirth, a ceremonial exit from the womb and refutation of everything that had tethered me to what I now regard as mythical nonsense.

It’s worth noting the language about rebirth and the untethering of the self from the power operating within the church.

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