Bill Leone: Applauding Ashton’s Courage

I am a straight, 77 year old guy, soon to be 78.  I work as a psychotherapist, & have been doing so for the past eleven years.
I was a teacher for 20 years for the MPUSD.  I started & ran a very successful local business for another 20 years: The Bagel Bakery.  I spent four years in the US Air Force with a Top Secret, Cryptographic Security Clearance (Before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell), & before that I was raised in the Mean Streets of South Brooklyn (Bensonhurst:  a Mafia controlled neighborhood) among a group of rough & tough, dangerous Italian gangsters.
I just want to applaud your courage in telling your story (In Transition, May 24).  There are many young people in Monterey County, in California & all over the country, if not the World, who are looking for support, comfort & compassion in their struggle, just to be recognized as People.  Your speaking out will give them what they are looking for.  Please, keep up the good work.
Bill Leone, MFT
Seaside
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