My parents really loved me, but they thought I was totally ill. Mentally ill. My mother went many times to our house doctor and complained to him: 'There’s something off with our son. Because he comes home for lunch and then he does 250 sit- ups instead of eating lunch. Then he comes home at ten o’clock at night. He works two hours down at the gym. Look at this wall here in his bedroom. Look at all these pictures of naked men hanging there. Should we be concerned about that? This kid is fifteen years old and there are all these naked men.' They were all bodybuilding champions and boxers, but she called them 'naked men.'

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