But Mom broke up with Brad; she didn't like craftsmen, she said, because 
they were too much like actual Victorians, always spouting all kinds of crap 
about how one thing was better than another thing, which eventually led, she 
explained, to the belief that some people were better than others. She took up 
with a guy named Burt who eventually moved in with them. Burt explained to Nell 
and Harv that the house needed discipline and that he intended to provide it, 
and after that he spanked them all the time, sometimes on the butt and 
sometimes on the face. He spanked Mom a lot too.