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              <text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;I almost covered kind of, right away. I learned about Islam a lot. My ex-husband, my children’s father, we grew up together in Chicago and we married and had kids, and we moved to Minnesota. He embraced Islam about a year before I did, so I learned a lot from the literature that he had. Of course, he didn’t know a whole lot because he was a very new Muslim, he had people that would embrace and teach you. I had women in the community who basically embraced me and taught me a lot. And almost right away, I learned what it meant to cover. And I cried, honestly, the first day when I found out I had to wear a scarf every day. I was like, “are you kidding me?” And I mean, it didn’t deter me from Islam but it took me about six months. I started - I wore a turban, I had started dressing more modestly. Honestly, I feel like before I embraced Islam, God was always moving me towards that point. From the time that I was sixteen years old, I remember wanting to be more spiritual. And I read the Bible, from cover to cover. And I was like, I remember the adults around me saying, “you need Jesus in your life,” and you know, I was a wayward kid, and so whenever I was in trouble they were like, “You need Jesus, that’s what’s wrong with you.” And I was like, “Okay, let me get Jesus in my life, you know?” And so when I read the Bible from cover to cover and I would go to church and what I read and understood would not be the way the pastor was explaining it, and I was trying to be respectful of those who were more knowledgeable than me, so I would ask questions, but they would get upset with me. And now I realize that it was because they didn’t really have the answers. It was not because I was doing anything devilish as they told me - “we’re taught not to question the Bible,” and I was like, “aw, man, really? I just need to understand it.” So I always felt like I was being moved towards a more modest way of dress, a more modest way of living, a more generous way of living. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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