John Melonakos @melonakos Twitter profile

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John Melonakos

@melonakos

4 months

After four years of effort, I will be rebaptized as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( @Ch_JesusChrist ) tomorrow. DM me for a Zoom link if you'd like to join the event. It will be at 2pm EST. I am very excited :-) Details here:

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@Austen A snail that smart might take other forms of transportation.

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My rebaptism.

My Rebaptism

(I originally announced my return to church here.) I have had the most amazing weekend. I was rebaptized on the Saturday of Father’s Day weekend. I made a special covenant with my Heavenly Fa…

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John Melonakos

@melonakos

4 months

After four years of effort, I will be rebaptized as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( @Ch_JesusChrist ) tomorrow. DM me for a Zoom link if you'd like to join the event. It will be at 2pm EST. I am very excited :-) Details here:

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11 months

My youngest boys shined in the primary program at church this morning with their friends. ❤️

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3 months

@GAFollowers This happening so frequently we are getting the news of them in batches now?

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3 years

@BYU BYU: Here's a nice study about respecting and elevating the status of women and shedding toxic masculinity. Disney movies teach good stuff. These comments: Nah, we don't like that. 🤦‍♂️

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2 months

@MichaelStanger1 They think the last election was stolen. Of course they will make other things up.

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@naval So is asking the Georgia governor to "find votes."

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@melonakos

2 years

@JanessaTaylor20 I do not support calling anyone a "false prophet." That's a judgment no one ought to be casting.

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5 months

@jaredadairbell @Manhattva why is this of good report or praiseworthy?

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2 months

Amicalola Falls to Woody Gap on the Appalachian Trail this weekend with my oldest. 29 miles in 2 days. Now he's back to @universityofga to begin his junior year studying finance and management information systems.

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9 months

@NotZishan Best to assume they mean well and move on.

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3 years

@kelseyhightower Today's paper.

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6 months

@emmusic @Ch_JesusChrist

David A. Bednar

@BednarDavidA

6 months

Jesus Christ is our Redeemer, our Mediator, and our Advocate with the Eternal Father and the rock upon which we should build the spiritual foundation of our lives.

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Pics from the reception after. The food and DJ were amazing. Here's me with parents and with my Stake President, Nelson Zivic, and his wife, Lorena, who have become dear friends.

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2 months

@irvingdector The walk home is even more beautiful than the one away. Welcome home, brother.

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@melonakos

6 months

@jicapal literal nonsense

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@melonakos

6 months

@julieheglund And people like me, returning!

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@melonakos

2 years

@Noahpinion @mimi10v3 lol, you nimby

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2 years

@DNewsOpinion Supporting LGBTQ people in no way constitutes grooming. Groomers exist all across the political spectrum. Great article! Let's stop throwing around loaded labels and start supporting other people. "Cease to find fault one with another" is an actual commandment. D&C 88:124

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2 months

@gopTODD sulking and election results denial is on-brand for maga

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@melonakos

7 months

My weekend in Idaho Falls begins. Any suggestions on things to see and do here?

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9 months

@JackPosobiec Grateful for this message and for the church that delivered it.

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3 years

@seagulljaap I remember that name from @_megconley 's well-written piece,

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7 months

@religiongal It's a great talk and an appropriate analogy. The point is not to use the metaphorical musket offensively. But to be willing and ready to defend against those who seek to offend. We would all do well to understand the message instead of judging a metaphor by twisting its intent.

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@melonakos

10 months

@blibberbl0b @Morbidful I went into this twice. It was wild.

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2 months

@Austen They are separate messages.

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2 months

@WardRadioShow He challenged your baseless assumption with a thought-provoking parallel and you respond with tribal labels and personal attacks. Grow up.

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@melonakos

9 months

The kids cleaned up nice for our Christmas pics. ❤️

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@melonakos

3 years

@religiongal I reject the framework of a question that presupposes the church is man-made.

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@melonakos

7 months

@Liz_Cheney @BasedMikeLee i love this. thank you, liz!

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@melonakos

2 years

“How sad it is when we honor our labels more than we honor each other.” -President Nelson ( @NelsonRussellM ) inspiring us tonight #WWdevo

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@melonakos

3 months

Thank you for all the support. The service was incredible. My heart is full. I'll share my talk and some pictures tomorrow. I love you all! ❤️

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@melonakos

3 years

@PeterBlack511 Regaining the testimony of the living prophet was the final and most difficult mental hurdle I had to pass before I was released from my hard-heartedness.

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@melonakos

9 months

@Austen I am more interested in whether or not people think that the ideas themselves that matter are being stolen. That people copy fluffer background paragraphs without attribution is bad form but does not amount to damages like the other form that peer review tends to catch.

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@melonakos

2 years

today hit me harder than i expected. i am the father of a college student at the university of georgia.

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@melonakos

4 months

@SecretCityChez Sara Brewer has some good ideas about switching from tracking days sober to thinking about your rate of urge processing. Resetting days-sober counters does not capture the information you care about most. Cups per month might be better to track. No shame!

6. All or Nothing Thinking

In today's episode we talk about all or nothing mindset. This is one of the most common things I see with my clients. All or nothing mindset looks like, “I alr

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2 years

@IrregularDavid I am personally glad they do not respond to current events very often. Their silence on this-or-that "current thing" implies nothing about their concern. Their role is to testify of Christ as special witnesses. It is not to draft press releases to satiate political proclivities.

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@melonakos

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@StoolSMU We love you anyway.

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@melonakos

7 months

@BlackBlessedLDS nominee for funniest take on it

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@NoblestCalling My favorite part is that she plans on getting poor sleep no matter what.

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2 months

@BlackBlessedLDS Korihor's arguments were similar. Uncanny how every week we live the "Come, Follow Me" lesson on here.

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4 months

@mwseibel Treating children that way is also poor parenting.

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@melonakos

2 years

@JReubenCIark The irony of thinking you're better at being Christian than anybody else.

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@melonakos

6 months

@POTUS so, inflating the national debt to try to win an election

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John Melonakos

@melonakos

2 years

Today, we are announcing that my team and I have joined @sanjivmshah and team @Intel to open a new chapter in our story. We look forward to contributing to oneAPI and its open-source vision for accelerated computing. Check out the blog post below for more!

sanjiv

@sanjivmshah

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Great to have @melonakos and team on board! Can’t wait to have Arrayfire running in Xe.

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5 months

@BlackBlessedLDS God's elect are found scattered among all cultures, tribes, sects, and nations of the world. Let's gather together and do something substantial in promoting peace.

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@melonakos

2 months

@marv0l0riddle The oddness is a mark of His design! Deuteronomy 14:2 - "the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth." 1 Peter 2:9 - "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;"

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1 year

@seanryanlayton I've been coming back for 3 years. Each year that goes by it gets better. Welcome home.

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@melonakos

2 years

@Not_Ssmob3 *for the entire planet

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@melonakos

9 months

@devinzander No, the vote for Biden was the lesser of two evils vote for many people in the church.

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@melonakos

2 years

@NelsonRussellM Thank you for the challenge. I'm following the 5 steps to build spiritual momentum. I'm also spending a focused hour of prayer each week on Tuesday nights.

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@melonakos

9 months

@Brcremer It is not just the look. It is the reality for many who idolize their politics.

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5 months

@____Alice_White @jaredadairbell @Manhattva The only wimp is the one who thinks pithy contention is a show of strength.

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@melonakos

11 months

Better believers than skeptics: “Being a believer is more profitable than being a skeptic because if you're a skeptic and right, you make no new thing happen. If you're a believer and you're right, something awesome happens. Nice incentive to be positive sum.”

David Perell

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Garry Tan isn't just the CEO of Y Combinator. He's also a passionate writer, has a YouTube channel with 251,000 subscribers, and once turned a $300k investment into $2 billion. Here are 10 of his best ideas: 1. How to write a good YC application: Teach the reader something

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2 months

Shoutout to BYU's newest professor, @Eric_Melonakos !

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@melonakos

2 years

@ApostateAbish I was also the only exmo in a similar family. I hope you feel loved as you find your way. I was grateful for the love I received. I spent 5 hard years out doing whatever I wanted. Two years ago I had an experience that called me home and the return has been sweet. Happy trails!

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@melonakos

7 months

@samuel_colvin Let's force people to build houses with legos too. Much safer than working with nails.

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@melonakos

3 years

@TaylorPetrey We're not responsible for the sins of our fathers, but we need to understand we live among those whose lives are affected by the deeds of our fathers and go out of our way to help those less fortunate. Period. It's awful otherwise.

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@melonakos

6 months

@stretchyWombat

Dan McClellan

@maklelan

6 months

Whoever forged the Jordan Lead Codices is back, but this time they learned how to include some actual Hebrew in their forgeries. Here are some screenshots from the YT video linked below that presents these forgeries as authentic ancient artifacts.

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@melonakos

7 months

@MeltingIce @chamath i had it for 28 days. it was no simple flu.

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@melonakos

9 months

@lutherananswers No, this is wrong. The cost you mention is infinite. Christ alone paid the price by taking the weight of sin upon Himself. We teach that He died for our sins. As we yoke ourselves to Him through faith, repentance, and covenant, His grace alone saves. Stop twisting our beliefs.

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John Melonakos

@melonakos

2 years

@RonaldARasband Romans 8:38-9 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord

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@melonakos

3 years

@religiongal @hankrsmith @_megconley I will make a statement about our online behavior. The truth does not need aggressive "defending," as @hankrsmith often postulated, it needs sharing, inviting, and enticing. Any form of ego, judgment, or contention flips an effort from doing good to causing harm. 2/5

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@melonakos

2 years

@MikePet74757259 Beautiful story; thanks for sharing. I have a 19yo son I really hope will find his way to a mission one day too.

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@melonakos

3 months

my 5 year old, after seeing that i understand how magnets work: "do you know all that because you're a ninja-ear." can change my linkedin from engineer to that? 👷 🥷 👂

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@melonakos

6 months

@deseretian @byuhawaii This is the gospel of Jesus Christ in action. You'd do better to learn from this example than to act like vilification is doctrinally acceptable.

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John Melonakos

@melonakos

2 years

3yo caught his first fish tonight. 🎣

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@melonakos

9 months

@14e_ther We are especially ridiculous on Saturdays. Also, I am a single RM looking for a temple marriage. My DMs are open 😘

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@melonakos

10 months

@ChristoffDTodd The decentralized genius of stakes in Zion is beautiful to see unfolding across the globe! ❤️

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@melonakos

2 years

@sltrib @CristinaMartaR Very cool. "Jesus anointed that Prophet and Seer."

Praise to the Man

https://www.lds.org/general-conference?lang=eng The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings “Praise to the Man.” October 2014 General Conference.

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@melonakos

5 months

@____Alice_White @jaredadairbell @Manhattva Nothing Jesus ever said is remotely close to the drivel yelled at this cyclist. The only fool is the hypocrite that calls themself Christian while mocking their neighbor. Do better.

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@melonakos

3 years

@balajis This is the parable of talents,

Parable of the Talents - Wikipedia

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@melonakos

9 months

@BlackBlessedLDS I answer these introspectively since I've been both. My exmo self is annoyed by my mo self that judges harshly and admires how it sincerely works at developing Christlike attributes. My mo self is annoyed by my exmo self lack of faith and admires how it healed and reset things.

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John Melonakos

@melonakos

1 year

That Christ broke the bands of death is the same power by which all family relationships can be made eternal. We can follow Him and likewise return to our Father in Heaven. Jesus lives and He loves you and me. Happy Easter from the Melonakos Family! ❤️

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@melonakos

2 years

@amasad @Carnage4Life true, the "change from a year earlier" is an important piece of information

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@melonakos

6 months

@deseretian @matthewallen @byuhawaii The only gross beast-like behavior is yours.

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@melonakos

2 years

@Noahpinion If Freud ever slipped, this is it.

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@BlackBlessedLDS It's also sad when people become so consumed with The Church that they miss the entire point of developing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

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@melonakos

9 months

@RealTStevenson as if you know anything about him

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@melonakos

3 years

@bartekci @Austen *alone* outside means there is no value in community exampling for this hypothetical

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@melonakos

3 years

@foxonabox_ There's a huge hole in one's life when you extricate something as consuming as membership in the church. So much so that the identity for many becomes "I have a hole to rebuild in my life now; help me please." It makes practical sense that is the case.

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@melonakos

5 months

A "screw it, let's do it" week to remember with @richardbranson and friends.

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@melonakos

6 months

@AmericanReg1 Everything the church does helps families. Too bad the same cannot be said of the Trib.

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@melonakos

2 years

@Noahpinion Oh, we owe it to the children to be serious about mom and dad being together to raise them as a matter of wise principle. Have babies, yes. But let's support marriage as the recommended procreative path.

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5 months

@RchlGirl Modesty is a mindset. It is the quality or state of being unassuming or moderate in promoting oneself or any personal attributes, not just body image. It relates to humility but differs in that modesty concerns how one appears to others, whereas humility concerns self-assessment.

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@melonakos

1 year

This weekend I was thrilled to walk my beautiful daughter onto her high school's football field with her Homecoming Court. My heart is full. ❤️

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@melonakos

7 months

@BednarDavidA Yes, great message! It is impossible to surprise the Lord.

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@melonakos

4 years

@Jason Those who are voting for Trump are wanting to improve America by ... throwing a wrench into a system. Those who are voting for Biden are wanting to improve America by ... by tossing out the president. Neither side presented a candidate with great ideas and hope.

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@melonakos

2 years

No more training wheels.

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3 months

@BradWitbeck great point. alma 8 also resembles the tribal "us vs them" mindset of the closed-minded towards messages that do not come from their in-group. all too common among us.

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@melonakos

2 months

@jkimballcook The same is true for all standardized tests: they test test-taking ability more than they do any subject matter.

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@melonakos

3 years

@RoRoSparky @hmdoppelganger @jkimballcook we prefer the term peculiar

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@melonakos

6 months

@jaredadairbell @GayMormonMason Then why start this thread at all? Just heed it not. I do not understand why people spend so much time broadcasting things they do not like. The sowing of division requires the oxygen of your response.

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@melonakos

5 months

@MerriamWebster *R-e-s-p-e-c-t to songs...

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@melonakos

2 months

@secrets_mormon @KevinNe77857066 When people leave, we wish them well. When they return, we welcome them home. I was rebaptized last month after a decade of wandering. The journey home is even more beautiful than the journey away. ❤️ Happy trails, friend.

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John Melonakos

@melonakos

2 years

@RelevantQuest This is the best take! The recent counsel of @BednarDavidA to "heed not" applies nicely to all sorts of trash, like this upcoming series as well as the subject of many twitter conversations. Scholars would do well to ignore feeble-minded fear-mongering.

But We Heeded Them Not

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3 years

@Ranicket @cdixon nope, giving user data back to the user would be the correct emblem that he won't give

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@melonakos

4 months

@RelevantQuest The fear of commitment is real among singles.

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10 months

@jefe_tweets He's the best man we have in Washington. God bless him for calling it like it is with Trump.

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4 months

@actsofapostles_ Great timing. My stake membership council approved my readmission to the church via rebaptism a few hours ago. The return sure is sweet. ❤️

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