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I would be very surprised if Anna had gone through the endowment ceremony. I don't see anything in what we know of her teenage years to make me think she leaned into religion, either to make up for what was going on with her mom or being an awkward social reject at school. Participating in the endowment ceremony has a bunch of requirements, and I don't see her meeting them.You can't get a secret name as a Mormon unless you go through the temple endowment ceremony.
Mormonism's a high-demand, intensely communal religion that asks a lot of its adherents; the Mormons I know all have various church commitments, and keep ending up on one committee after another. Some are better at refusing service obligations than others, but they've all got something, especially the women. Serving the church community is a huge deal.
Given her personality, I don't see Anna going along with that; she needs a lot of attention and admiration for everything she does, and serving anything or anybody other than Anna herself is merely incidental—Anna's wants and needs always come first, always have, and that was evident even in her earliest blogs and social media postings.
And while she grew up in an LDS family, I don't get the impression that they were particularly devout. Maybe not full-blown Jack Mormons, but leaning that way. Her brother, from what little we've seen of him, may be the one who takes it most seriously.
So I think she rejected Mormonism at a fairly early age—if not a hard rejection where she deliberately pushed back against it, then at least a soft rejection where she just didn't bother participating. And that would have included not bothering to do the things or be the good LDS member required to go through the endowment ceremony.
Given her personality, I don't see Anna going along with that; she needs a lot of attention and admiration for everything she does, and serving anything or anybody other than Anna herself is merely incidental—Anna's wants and needs always come first, always have, and that was evident even in her earliest blogs and social media postings.
And while she grew up in an LDS family, I don't get the impression that they were particularly devout. Maybe not full-blown Jack Mormons, but leaning that way. Her brother, from what little we've seen of him, may be the one who takes it most seriously.
So I think she rejected Mormonism at a fairly early age—if not a hard rejection where she deliberately pushed back against it, then at least a soft rejection where she just didn't bother participating. And that would have included not bothering to do the things or be the good LDS member required to go through the endowment ceremony.
Anna wasn't born in Texas, but if you don't drive balls-out through that long, empty stretch of west Texas, what are you even doing with your life?I mean, sure, but if you can’t shave off 43 minutes from your drive time, I am canceling your Texas Birth Certificate.
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