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What constitutes a real apology? What is the value of forgiveness? Those questions emerged after the recent LDS General Conference during which several Mormon leaders focused on forgiveness, a noteworthy subject amid this Mormon #MeToo moment. Marybeth Raynes, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in Salt Lake City, discusses apologies and forgiveness — for individuals and institutions, including churches — in this week’s “Mormon Land.