Harley Finkelstein

That sort of came out of nowhere.

My parents turned 70 and it just something to be changed.

But my relationship with my dad is loving and I have deep admiration for the life he's given me.

But certainly, I think some of the trauma he sustained from being an immigrant, from being the child of Holocaust survivors, I've adopted that through his experiences, but also to the fact that at 17 years old, the rug I pulled from me, and I was forced to basically grow up overnight.

I remember we moved to South Florida in 1996 or 95 or so.

I was around 12 years old.

The area we moved into, it was in Boca Raton, Florida in Palm Beach County.

Boca is well known as being a fairly wealthy area, but we were not wealthy.

I mean, again, when we lived in Montreal, I didn't experience any, there was always food on my table.

I always felt like, you know, I didn't always have all the stuff that I wanted the, you know, the Air Jordans, but I had one pair of Air Jordans.

And so I didn't, I didn't live a life of, of where I didn't have enough growing up.

But I remember moving to South Florida and that was the first time I think that I realized that other people have a lot more than I did.

There were gated communities everywhere, but we didn't live in one.

There were incredible private schools everywhere, but I couldn't attend one because it was too expensive.

It was sort of in that age group, in that sort of range where I began to realize that my father wanted to have a better life than he did, that he was he wasn't living in a community where we were the average or we were above average.

We were living in a community where we were below average.

I remember asking my parents why I couldn't go to private school.

There were these beautiful private schools all over Boca Raton with these big, beautiful gates and these wonderful buildings.

And I remember asking my parents, why can't I go to Pinecrest or St.

Andrews, which are the two big schools?