Jeff Grant

Okay.

And my father had been in a family business and it failed.

And then he had to kind of go out on his own.

And as soon as my mother figured out that my father wasn't going to be the great success that she had hoped for, you know, the guy who's going to lead her out of Brooklyn and lead her into the promised land, she started seeing other guys.

She had affairs.

She was doing all kinds of crazy stuff.

I think my parents were probably swingers.

That was going on in my neighborhood out there in Long Island.

We would peer through the windows and watch our parents have parties on Saturday nights, and we didn't know what was going on.

Figured it out later.

But it was a whole class of people, mostly Jewish kids, who we had to raise ourselves.

And it was a little daunting to try to figure out

Like what to do, how to do it.

You know, we became drinkers and druggers very early.

Me, my brother, my sister.

But I'm talking about everybody in my junior high school and everybody in my high school.

It was just this whole era of kids whose parents had basically abandoned them.

And if you ask any kid from Long Island, they're going to tell you the same story.

It was just, it was crazy.

And it was a, it was the first time anybody had, you know, a little bit of money.