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Red chip.

Blue chip.

Bad boy.

Good Boy.

The chips are counted every single week.

Red Boy gets the belt. Beaten within an inch of his life.

Blue boy gets an M&M.

Start again next week.

Red Boy gets chips for being girly. For loving his mother. For being kind.

Blue Boy gets chips for being tough. For playing with trucks. For swallowing tears.

The Chips rise and fall.

Only Red Boy.

Only Blue Boy.

Mother and father are afraid of Pink Boy.

Doctors say this will work.

The chips will keep him in line.

‘No one was obviously harmed’.