Love Changes Everything

mumblingsage:

…And every time I begin to worry these Patriots are all too awesome and cool and maybe it’s wrong to write them as my antagonists, it turns out a pack of them went and did something like threatening to strap a sixteen year old onto a log in a sawmill (a bluff, as it turns out, as part of an interrogation of a Connecticut boy holding out on the whereabouts of his Loyalist brother. Even if they didn’t mean it—dick move, man. Dick. Move.)

I’ve also learned more than I ever cared to know about the aftermath of being tarred and feathered—not from firsthand sources, as it happens, because at least one firsthand source found the injuries after “a Manner unfit for Description in a Newspaper.”