'No,' he said, 'I can never be free if my whole family is inside. I have to be together with them,'

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin.

Now you are free.

What would I need a Jew for?

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.