like some of us would throw away garbage. Mom and dad not in the picture anymore, thank God, but he and his sister were.thrown away. But there were a few special kids, and one in particular, who was a throwaway, a young person tossed out of their homes for being gay, or for getting on a parent's nerves, or whatever, but tossed out with nowhere to go and usually no money. Really.Īnd I loved so many of these kids. We were one step down from psychiatric hospitalization, and some of the stories I could tell you.you cannot imagine. These were 12 - 17 year old kids, most of whom were abandoned or neglected, beaten, raped, prostituted out. All had suffered some level of abuse - mental, physical, sexual. So I guess a couple of things you should know about me are that I was CFO for a residential treatment center for abused adolescents for the past ten years, and that I am a gay man.
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