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She hits me across the face with this belt and says,

shut up, the neighbors are going to think I'm beating you.

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 92 of Sword and Scale, a Father's Day. But the story we're telling you today isn't about fathers.

It's about a mother, actually, and her son.

You know, we rarely like to tell stories about serial killers.

I just don't find them quite as interesting as stories about regular people who just snap.

But this one is different.

It's so extreme and has so many bizarre turns that I couldn't stop reading about it.

I think you'll like it.

So let's just dive right in.

Here we go. The There is a Jewish proverb that states, God could not be everywhere, so therefore he made mothers.

The Victorian poet Robert Browning wrote,

Womanliness means only motherhood.

All love begins and ends there.

A particularly humorous Chinese proverbs states,

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

But despite your physical attractiveness, the love of a mother is something every child desperately

craves for from birth.

It's part of our instinct, a survival mechanism which cries out for a mother's comfort and safety

and food when left alone and feeling vulnerable.

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