"i think it's easy to see your childhood as having been oppressive," she says. "But i do feel that there is an ease that comes from never having to ask existential questions as a child" She asks: How do you transition to a world in which none of this is true any more? 'I had no idea what my life was going to look like,' she adds.
Megan Phelps-Roper was born into the Westboro Baptist Church, a religious cult called the most rabid hate groups in America. Megan was a true believer and one of the Church’s most vocal advocates...until one day, she changed her mind.
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