Gavin Newsom

And it hurt me.

I'm like, man, I don't want to be average.

But I understood what, years later, and part of the memoir discovery is I understood she was just on her journey trying to be a good parent.

She was struggling herself, just like, it's okay.

You don't have to be smarter than anybody.

And that's life, man.

We're all just like, it's not like we're all broken.

I don't want to get into that, but it's like, it's just, you know, it's messy and we're all messy and it's okay.

And, you know, and so, you know, that's what it's like to be a man.

Man is recognizing that and to love, man, and to be loved.

you know, we all need it.

And to ask for help.

I mean, the strongest people, those that bend down on one knee, yeah, and lift other people up, but also those that ask for help.

And I had to ask for help a lot.

And that's in this book.

That's why I say, for those that hate me, you want more op research, buy the damn book in bulk.

But for those that think they know me, I challenge you, buy a couple books because you may want to pass along to a friend and it may challenge even your assumptions.

And those that love me, I hope I gave you some reason why you may be right and maybe challenge you to say, all right, you didn't know that about me, but maybe I offered another layer of understanding that may allow you to forgive me a little bit too.

But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany.

Those first images came out of my state, the second largest city in the United States of America.