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In reply to the discussion: Hey Aldean, I was raised in a small town. Let me tell ya' 'bout it . . . [View all]lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)I was 11 years old. At 14, I got outed as gay by, formerly a "friend" who initiated a sexual tryst with me.
I was covered with bruises for 2 agonizing years there. It got even worse after local relatives of Westboro Baptist fomented hatred that was focused exclusively on me, since 2 other of their targets had killed themselves. After these creeps convinced my father to attempt a rather clumsy death trap for me...
I ran away from home at 16 and never been back there.
There isn't anything respectable about these well armed, idiotic fools. I'm frankly not surprised one bit a similar area sent Lauren Idiot Boebert to congress...twice.
Dammit I had tamped down the PTSD via therapy until the 2016 triumph of the Trumper dipshits, still trying to resuscitate the corpses of the bigotry brigade.