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As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man.