Banished: Surviving My Years In The Westboro Baptist Church - Plot & Excerpts
--2 Chronicles 36:16 In August 2001, I entered Topeka West High School filled with optimism. The school was just past the enormous Mount Hope Cemetery, about two miles from my house. In the month since our family had arrived, I had become close enough to my three best friends that we had affectionate nicknames for each other. I was called La, Jael was Jay, Megan was Meg, and Rebekah was Bekah. At Topeka West, Jael and I were going into eleventh grade, Megan was going into tenth, and Bekah was going to be a freshman. The school had about eleven hundred students in the four grades, so Jael and I were with almost three hundred other juniors. Having friends gave me confidence as I returned to public school for the first time in ten months, but the transition was still challenging. Everybody knew who the Phelps girls were, since they even picketed the high school. Therefore, not only was I a curiosity as the "new girl from Florida," but I was also associated with the WBC, which came with its own negative presumptions and prejudices about me.
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