John Colapinto
John Colapinto
John Colapintois a Canadian award-winning journalist, author and novelist and is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He plays keyboards and sings in the Sequoias, a band made up mostly of New York magazine journalists...
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I was immediately fascinated, ... How did this child grow up and survive? The article mentioned that this was then done to other children -? this was a precedent-setting case. I was reaching for the phone when my editor called and said, 'Can you try and find this person?'
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I was both excited and terrified, ... This was the ultimate dead-end. On the one hand, it would be great if I could find him -? it would be the most remarkable story filled with human drama. Then I was thinking, 'I will never get it.' How do you get someone to talk about the most damaging emotional moments in their life?
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David thought people would be disgusted by him, ... but he was stopped on the streets of New York by people who said 'You have such courage for trying to stop this practice.' The positive feedback made him feel so good. He just blossomed because of this.