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My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.