Harley Finkelstein

He called it Le Capitaine.

It still stands there today.

My uncle runs it.

It's been around for, I don't know, 75 years, something like that.

And, um,

I think my dad was always very ambitious.

He had that immigrant ambition.

He wanted to have a better life than his parents had, and he wanted his children to have a better life than he had.

And growing up, he always sort of made us feel like we had enough.

There was never sort of a sense of scarcity in the house whatsoever.

It was only later in life that I realized that it was a bit of a fugazi.

It was fake, that we really didn't have very much.

But at the time, I didn't know that.

It felt like I had enough.

And where things came to a head, and you and I have been friends for a long time, so you know the story, was when I was 17, my dad was arrested.

I went to prison.

And that was sort of the first time that I saw

True vulnerability.

That's where it all sort of... The facade of a secure foundation came crumbling down for me.

I had just moved.