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Granddaughters of Westboro Baptist's founder recall fleeing the church

The night before Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper left the church that had meant everything to them, relative after relative streamed into their rooms, crying.

2006Grace Phelps-Roper , then 13, with her brother Gabriel, then 10, at a Westboro Baptist protest. DYLAN SLAGLE
2006Grace Phelps-Roper , then 13, with her brother Gabriel, then 10, at a Westboro Baptist protest. DYLAN SLAGLERead more/ Carroll County Times, File Photograph