Rolypolyoly
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Doesn't Trails Carolina send adults that are strangers to the families into these kids homes to remove them without the child's knowledge and "transport" them to camp? Wasn't that what Clark's parents paid for to be done to their tiny 12-year-old son? This practice doesn't sound therapeutic to me.
I'm not sure the "escorts" are/were employed by Trails itself or just a subcontractor the camp hooked the parents up with. but yeah basically goons sent to grab you from your own home by surprise and haul you off to camp.
Yes, the camp itself doesn't arrange or offer this service, although I'm sure they can conveniently point people in the right direction, but the parents arrange and hire the goons to kidnap their vulnerable children from their beds in the middle of the night.
Imagine willingly doing that to your child, imagine the poor child's horror at being subjected to that whilst they are begging you to help them, to make it stop, and you, their safe person, the ones who are supposed to protect them and keep them safe, you stand aside and let it happen.
Imagine the utter devastation of a child who already feels wrong, already feels like they are unlovable, knows they are different but have no idea how to make themselves right for you, and they can't because it's brain chemistry not willful bad behaviour, as they realise that you did this to them, that not only did you not love them enough to stop someone forcefully taking them away whilst they begged you to help them, but it was actually you who instigated it.
And Imagine what poor, lost Clark who only wanted to be loved and tried to hard to fit your expectations, felt as he took his last breath in that bivy, thinking nobody loved him, that he wasn't good enough for his own parents to want to keep him safe at home where he belonged.
I agree with @Betty P. Clark took his last breath with those feelings in his heart, his parents absolutely should feel it in theirs until their last.
JMO