He wasn't a jew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Silverstein#Early_life Thomas Silverstein was born in Long Beach, California, to Virginia Conway. Conway had divorced her first husband in 1952 while pregnant with Silverstein and married Thomas Conway, who Silverstein claimed was his biological father. **Four years later, Virginia divorced Conway and married Sid Silverstein, who legally adopted her son.** Silverstein was timid, awkward, shy, and frequently bullied as a child in the middle-class neighborhood where the family lived, in part because **his peers mistakenly believed he was Jewish**. Virginia Silverstein demanded that her son fight back, telling the boy that if he ever came home again crying because he had been beaten up by a bully, she would be waiting to give him another beating. Silverstein states, "That's how my mom was. She stood her mud. If someone came at you with a bat, you got your bat and you both went at it." At age fourteen, Silverstein was sentenced to a California Youth Authority reformatory where, he said, his attitudes about violence were reinforced. "Anyone not willing to fight was abused." In 1971, at age nineteen, Silverstein was sent to San Quentin Prison in California for armed robbery. Four years later, he was paroled, but he was arrested soon after along with his father, Thomas Conway, and his cousin, Gerald Hoff, for three armed robberies. Their take was less than $11,000. In 1977, Silverstein was sentenced to fifteen years for armed robbery, to be served at United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.[2][5] ... His life was a fucking drama on day1 And it didn't get better ... That being said, I know from experience that it's much better to be alone, it's very hard to get along with any1 for that long (years, decade(s)), and you can't afford things to go south, that's the last thing you need. And it will, it's only a matter of time, in 99% of the cases. One way to put it is that you disagree with yourself on very rare occasions, to say the least What else? Ah yeah! Very important; You can be very happy as an inmate or an homeless, at one condition: You can quit anytime you want. As long as you know that, it's all fun, you aren't a prisoner of anything Morale, with a "e", is very important, it's the most important