Carol Pearson

Carol Pearson
Carol Lynn Wright Pearsonis an American poet, author, screenwriter, and playwright. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Pearson is best known for the book Goodbye, I Love You, a memoir of her marriage to a gay man who died of AIDS in 1984. She frequently addresses the topics of LGBT acceptance and the role of Mormon women...
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Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
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But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and the extreme response is suicide. Their self-destructive, self-loathing is so strong that they just can't live with themselves, and that is just untenable.