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because he could handle

every situation very well.

He was always prompting me on.

Otherwise I'd have stayed in

my shell much, much longer.

We were raised as Catholics.

My mother put us in parochial

school, where we had nuns.

She just was really,

really concerned

about our own development--

mental, physical,

and spiritual.

I loved going to church.

I did sing in the choir.

Benediction was always wonderful

to me, and mass was in Latin,

and I loved that.

It was a good place to

go and become a par

of something that moved me.

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Of course I went to

movies all the time.

I lived at the movies.

There was an aura

about movie stars.

It was quite wonderful.

They were total escapism.

I loved that.

Movies was a world away.

I did feel I was

different from other boys.

The word gay was not

around when I was a kid.

They used derogatory

terms- fairy, queer.

And I might even have

said that about someone,

not wanting to be

different, wanting

to be like everyone else.

I was always taught

if there's something

bad just push it from your

mind, push it from your mind.

So I never confronted those

things, even though it was

there and was very powerful.

I hated myself.

I went to confession.

And this one priest made me feel

like I was the most miserable

person that ever lived.

After my confession I fed

from the church completely,

even though it was

something I really loved.

I came away from that

more fearful than ever.

I when John Burroughs Junior

High School with Arhur Gelien.

It with as if magic had

dropped into the school.

Honestly, the girls would

not leave him alone.

They had never seen

anybody so handsome.

They were just mesmerized.

Girls were very

attracted to me,

and it made me

exremely uncomforable

when people would carry on

in any way, shape, or form.

If he tried to walk down the

hall, he simply was mobbed.

There were times that he'd have

to run into an empty classroom

and lock the door to

get away from the girls.

I don't know how he survived.

The attention at school was

so disruptive that I just felt

I needed some sor of escape.

So I decided to join

the Coast Guard.

I just had wanderlust.

My mother and I had a big

argument just prior to my

joining the Coast Guard.

Kelm was my father's

name-- Charles Kelm.

My earliest memory was my

father abusing my mother,

and my brother and I crying.

I had no recollection

of my father after that.

My mother never wanted

to talk about him.

In fact, you'd mention

his name and she

would literally shudder.

I at times wished

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