Word: tull
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tull took the letter to the police, who consulted with Washington County attorney John E. Samson and then proceeded in force--the complaint says with 10 squad cars, the city says it was fewer--to the house of the Smiths' cousins. The police believed they had probable cause to take her into custody, the police report states, "because of the health risk to Mary if an abortion was performed at this stage and due to the fact that an abortion was planned...
...that emotional afternoon more than a year ago, Heath Mayfield recalls, "I told her she didn't have to do that, and she kept crying." Heath too was upset, and when his mother Cathy Tull discovered why, she got on the phone with Mary's mother and, as she says, "had words." She and her husband John Tull, a printshop owner, then followed Heath to the Smiths' front yard, where the two families battled it out before a gathering audience of passersby. The Tulls claim that Heath was on his knees begging for the life of the baby in front...
...that point, the Smiths retreated to the nearby home of a relative and the Tulls went to get their son out of jail. But Cathy Tull didn't stop there. That evening she solicited from a local physician's assistant, James Jordan, a letter stating that "any elective abortion could potentially cause medical and emotional damage to the mother at any stage of pregnancy." Though Jordan and the doctor who co-signed the letter, K.C. Bagby, had never examined Mary, they claimed that at 23 weeks an abortion "could not only be harmful...but even in the most extreme case...
Luckily, Richard does have one fan, a psychopath named Steve Cousins (a.k.a "Scozz,") the only person in the world to have read and understood a Richard Tull novel. (He stole it from a hospital library where it was making the patients sicker.) Scozz, "a true professional, someone who hurts people in exchange for cash," agrees to help Richard "fuck Gwyn...
...terminally ill.') And that, in Richard's mature opinion, was definitely that. He had a large and lucent lump on the back of his neck. This he treated himself, by the following means: he kept his hair long to keep it hidden. If you went up to Richard Tull and told him he was in Denial, he would deny it. But not hotly...