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nightscanner59

(802 posts)
9. Indeed, I hadn't read any stories with the epithets included
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:01 PM
Oct 2013

Really gets my PTSD ire up. Not only was I subjected to a hellfire damnation by idiot Fred Phelps himself, on a visit to one of his Phelps relatives homes as a teenager, but I must have heard the epithet F*GGOT ten thousand times from my oh so lovely schoolmates. I have had a soul-searching apology from a very few of those, but remain completely estranged from all I grew up with. Growing up the only known f*g in a redneck town was one tough noogie, especially with abusive and neglectful parenting. Any wonder I ran away at 16?
This kind of story just wears me out to read. I hope that waiter has had a flood of good support.

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