TaupinJohn
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I remembered this story too, and as horrific as is the act of cutting a baby out of his mother, I didn't remember it for that. I remembered it for Joshua.
What he went through... I really do think his was the worst I've ever heard of in that regard. I mean, that he was taken to that woman's and ... after what he'd just witnessed and escaped... and tried to tell her everything was NOT, in fact, okay. Having another child read -- what, "Lion King" to him to "calm him down" -- after THAT? To imagine what must've been going on inside his head! That is the... to me, that is the very definition of a waking nightmare! Trying to tell people something very, very bad is happening and having them tell you to listen to a story and (ugh) sleep? He "whimpered" in his sleep, do doubt re-living what had just happened and when he awakened was "still crying." No doubt he'd realized this wasn't a bad dream. And then, to be given to the very thing that had terrified him... I can't even process what that had to have felt like. My mind can and will go to some dark places, but it won't go there.
And the whole... if they'd shot him execution-style initially, it wouldn't be so haunting. But the way they kept trying! I can't stand knowing that; I can't stand knowing he knew he was going to die by this monster. He was, essentially, screaming silently, just like we do in nightmares when no sound comes out despite our efforts.
If there is anything more horrific than this, I just cannot imagine what it would be.
What he went through... I really do think his was the worst I've ever heard of in that regard. I mean, that he was taken to that woman's and ... after what he'd just witnessed and escaped... and tried to tell her everything was NOT, in fact, okay. Having another child read -- what, "Lion King" to him to "calm him down" -- after THAT? To imagine what must've been going on inside his head! That is the... to me, that is the very definition of a waking nightmare! Trying to tell people something very, very bad is happening and having them tell you to listen to a story and (ugh) sleep? He "whimpered" in his sleep, do doubt re-living what had just happened and when he awakened was "still crying." No doubt he'd realized this wasn't a bad dream. And then, to be given to the very thing that had terrified him... I can't even process what that had to have felt like. My mind can and will go to some dark places, but it won't go there.
And the whole... if they'd shot him execution-style initially, it wouldn't be so haunting. But the way they kept trying! I can't stand knowing that; I can't stand knowing he knew he was going to die by this monster. He was, essentially, screaming silently, just like we do in nightmares when no sound comes out despite our efforts.
If there is anything more horrific than this, I just cannot imagine what it would be.