My father once asked me whether I was in a Communist training camp or something in the...

Interviewer:
Do you communicate with your parents? Eleanor, Festival Goer:
I can communicate with them at one level and that now that I'm away from home for two years and at first it was very rough. Now, um, they, you know, they're beginning to mellow about it, you know. And, like, it's not so hard on them that I'm the way I am. But, I can't really communicate to them about anything that's really important, because, they just could not understand it. Like, my mother's really, really, eh, lives in a lot of pain because she's sure I'm gonna go to hell. And there's nothing I can do to tell her that, you know, there is, that it just doesn't exist for me, you know. So, I, there's no communication on those levels. Jerry, Festival Goer:
My father once asked me whether I was in a Communist training camp or something in the house that I lived in. And, eh, you know, like I could understand, you know, where he's coming from, because when he, well, he's an immigrant, you know. So, he came over here to better himself, economically and socially and all that other rot. But, um, make it better for me and he can't understand why I didn't play, you know, he said, he's saying, you know, "Why aren't you playing the game?" you know. Here's all this opportunity, here are all these things which should have so much value. But, they only have value to him and he can't understand why they don't have value to me. But, then again he does have wisdom enough to know, allow me to be who I am