"They start early, but I'll be prepared. Like, say, if he's six years old and I catch him playing a little too closely with some of his friends, I will sit him right down and I will tell him that it is unnatural and a sin to do things like that with other boys. And I will say that he had better chase the girls around on the playground like a proper boy, and then grow up and get a girlfriend the way God wants him to--" there was something wrong with Stephen's voice; it had started to go wobbly-- "or else, he will be unnatural, and a disappointment to his family, and his daddy will be very ashamed of him."
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"They start early, but I'll be prepared. Like, say, if he's six years old and I catch him playing a little too closely with some of his friends, I will sit him right down and I will tell him that it is unnatural and a sin to do things like that with other boys. And I will say that he had better chase the girls around on the playground like a proper boy, and then grow up and get a girlfriend the way God wants him to--" there was something wrong with Stephen's voice; it had started to go wobbly-- "or else, he will be unnatural, and a disappointment to his family, and his daddy will be very ashamed of him."
i just...that is...*cries quietly to self*