Chapter Nine
Group Therapy
The concept, as Ellen and Frank described it, was sound enough. A group of b**m devotees with similar interests would gather and share their experiences. That was the idea. In practice and to some of the participants, it was at times more like a trial in which they had no say.
The group met in the huge underground room that was reserved for F&E’s special events and personal activities. This was the room with the steel tripod that was used to suspend the body bags. At other times it had other uses. For example, for this meeting of the group, the tripod was raised to a greater height so that a person of normal stature could stand under the apex of the structure, have their arms fully raised and be lifted off the floor. That was how Betty Lee Kim was using the tr
