Jeff Grant

And I never, other than like a few classes in law school, I really never understood the rules.

I mean, and I didn't even have a good sense of right and wrong.

I didn't.

And so I just played it fast and loose pretty much as long as I could.

At some point, while my offices were still in Manhattan...

the drugs and the alcohol were catching up with me.

I was like decompensating.

And I had a kind of come to Jesus moment around 1986 or so.

And then I didn't get sober, but I did go into therapy.

And that helped a lot.

You know, I mean, at first I was like in a lot of therapy and everything kind of just tamped down where ultimately I had gotten married and had two children.

And I decided that I wanted to be around for my children, unlike the way my father hadn't been for me.

And I woke up on literally on January 1st of 1991 and looked at my, at my ex-wife and I said, I can't do this anymore.

I said, I'm shutting the office down in Manhattan.

And we were living in Rye in Westchester County at the time, you know, just North of New York.

And I said to her, I'm shutting down the office and I'm moving it up here.

And we're going to, I'm going to make a go of it up here because I want to be around the kids.

I want to be a dad.

Rye is the suburbs.

Rye is the last town before you get to Connecticut.