So, like, I was reading your excerpt going "well, I know mildred and selenak both strenuously don't agree with this version of events, and I am inclined to believe them rather than you, random author, although I guess this is not so bad if you think FW was sort of vaguely emotionally tense with Fritz rather than actually emotionally and physically and every other kind of way abusive," and then I hit this brick wall:

If he was beaten, starved, humiliated and generally ill-treated it was to a large extent his own fault and his mother’s.

WHAT
NO

PLEASE TELL ME SHE DIDN'T HAVE KIDS.
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