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Sillitoe was born a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her inquisitive nature and feminist beliefs pushed her faith in the LDS Church until she no longer believed. In the early 1990s, she requested that her name be removed from the member rolls and the LDS Church complied.
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