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“You were with me until I was three...and then you kept disappearing on me.”
4:07

“You were with me until I was three...and then you kept disappearing on me.”

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“And you said, ‘I want you to do that house, please.’”
3:03

“And you said, ‘I want you to do that house, please.’”

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“I didn’t really think there was a possibility that I wouldn’t grow up.”
3:23

“I didn’t really think there was a possibility that I wouldn’t grow up.”

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"I’d be willing to trade you this old guitar for a bottle of whiskey."
2:59

"I’d be willing to trade you this old guitar for a bottle of whiskey."

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“I’m terrified of missing you growing up.”
3:03

“I’m terrified of missing you growing up.”

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“There was this big possum on the side of the road. He wasn’t hurt at all, except he was dead.”
3:35

“There was this big possum on the side of the road. He wasn’t hurt at all, except he was dead.”

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"I knew it was going to be hard and I knew I’d be different, but I knew I could compete with any of ’em."
3:26

"I knew it was going to be hard and I knew I’d be different, but I knew I could compete with any of ’em."

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“...everything was dead. Like if I had landed on the moon.”
2:47

“...everything was dead. Like if I had landed on the moon.”

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"The last thing I wanted you to do was to be afraid of being Jewish.”
2:35

"The last thing I wanted you to do was to be afraid of being Jewish.”

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“It shouldn’t be scary to be who you are."
3:03

“It shouldn’t be scary to be who you are."

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“I remember he had the white boots, the white mask, with kind of like a red beak.”
2:50

“I remember he had the white boots, the white mask, with kind of like a red beak.”

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"All we have carrying forward at this point is our DNA…"
2:32

"All we have carrying forward at this point is our DNA…"

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"People saw only a turban and a beard."
3:14

"People saw only a turban and a beard."

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“I opened up the back door of that church to see these hundreds of eyes all staring back at me, knowing where I had been.”
2:44

“I opened up the back door of that church to see these hundreds of eyes all staring back at me, knowing where I had been.”

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“In that moment that I took those pills, I wasn’t thinking of you and that’s hard to accept.”
2:46

“In that moment that I took those pills, I wasn’t thinking of you and that’s hard to accept.”

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"I had to be who I wasn’t so that I could survive."
2:32

"I had to be who I wasn’t so that I could survive."

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“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”
2:32

“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”

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“My parents were sharecroppers, working the land, working the tobacco, pulling the little bloom that comes off so there’d be more leaves…”
2:40

“My parents were sharecroppers, working the land, working the tobacco, pulling the little bloom that comes off so there’d be more leaves…”

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“Ice cream has given me a name, like a Ted Williams or a Babe Ruth or a Larry Bird.”
2:51

“Ice cream has given me a name, like a Ted Williams or a Babe Ruth or a Larry Bird.”

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“It seemed like we got close — and then I was arrested.”
2:39

“It seemed like we got close — and then I was arrested.”

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