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Brief Summary Of Race Traitor Joel Gilbert
The story was not a very happy story at first but toward the end Joel Gilbert finally finds himself and wants to change the United States. In the beginning of the story Race Traitor Joel Gilbert has an abusive family and a very mean father. His parents then get a divorce making Joel and his siblings move in with their mother which doesn’t seem so bad until their father kept breaking into their new house so they move again. This brought everyone closer together and they were finally free from their dad until two years later. The siblings find themselves moving back in with their father but it’s not a happy reunion because his father starts to beat and abuse Joel and his older brother everyday leaving him depressed. The story gets even more

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