I found this while looking about...
Thats one of the nicer parts. The rest is in the website below. This is taken from Chapter Two, approx maybe 1/12 to 1/10 down the page.
http://www.blank.org/addict/orig.addict.html
Before I at least respected Fred Phelps to the point where I thought He was just a hate monger. Now he's there on my "Lowest People I Ever Heard Of" list.
Mark Phelps feels nauseated whenever he remembers that night. He was hit
over 60 times and his brother, Nate, over 200 with a mattock handle.
Nate went into shock. Mark didn't. A boy who became a compulsive counter
to handle the stress, Mark counted every stroke. His and Nate's. While
their father screamed obscenities and his brother screamed in pain.
Every 20 strokes, their mother wiped their faces off in the tub. Nate
passed out anyway. That was Christmas Day.
Thats one of the nicer parts. The rest is in the website below. This is taken from Chapter Two, approx maybe 1/12 to 1/10 down the page.
http://www.blank.org/addict/orig.addict.html
Before I at least respected Fred Phelps to the point where I thought He was just a hate monger. Now he's there on my "Lowest People I Ever Heard Of" list.