Uncanny | Chelsea Hinckley

I am from Minnesota, and there aren't all that many Mormons in Minnesota. It is a predominantly Lutheran state. I've lived all around, but never in a place that had so many people like me- I'm used to being the goose in the duck pond. But last night, my Minnesota friend Melanie and I went to something called the "Social Revolution" put on by the LDSSA or something to that extent.

Never in my whole life would I have thought that a world like this existed.

I participated in speed dating. About half-way through I began to feel like I was in a movie. The person directing the show was in charge of ringing the bell every two minutes- a signal that our date with that person was over. The whole thing was super-dramatic yet oddly mellow. The scene reaked of over-ripened hormones. I kept waiting for someone to get up and give an oscar-clip-worthy monologue, but it never happened. I got out of there pretty fast. Apparently there were cookies, but I never found them.

I repeat: Never in my whole like woul I have thought that a world like this existed.