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There's all kinds of stories that fluctuate throughout the student body about the Falwells,

some good, some bad, some ridiculous.

Everything from, I heard they throw wild parties at their mansion or they're dealing drugs

in South America or all kinds of things you hear about them. So for most people it's kind of like,

yeah, yeah, yeah, that's just another crazy Falwell story.

I remember hearing stories about them being involved with students.

We'll call this person James. Back in 2008, when James was a student at Liberty University,

he was plugged into the music scene in Lynchburg, and one of his classmates was Jerry Falwell's

oldest son, Tray Falwell. Tray played guitar in a local band, and around that time there was a

rumor going around that Tray's mom, Becky Falwell, was having a sexual relationship with a Liberty

student who also happened to be a member of Tray's band. A couple years later, when I was at a college,

I was hanging out with a buddy of mine who also went to Liberty, and he had mentioned that story

about Becky performing oral sex on somebody. I wanted Tray's band members and I was like,

hang on, I was like, you know that story too? And he's like, yeah, yeah, I've heard it.

And I remember being like, all right, that's weird because that's of all the stories I remember

hearing about them. That one just came back up again. And he also knew the person that it happened

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