My mom had me when she was 16 and I was an only child which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

My mom had me when she was 16 and I was an only child which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Miami Beach – that's where I grew up in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me my great-grandmother – a Holocaust survivor who was my roommate – my grandparents my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Miami Beach – that's where I grew up in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me my great-grandmother – a Holocaust survivor who was my roommate – my grandparents my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.