sentences:  As a child, Kallinger often rebelled against his teachers and his adoptive parents.He dreamed of becoming a playwright, and had played the part of Ebenezer Scrooge in the local YWCA's performance of "A Christmas Carol" in the ninth grade.When Kallinger was 15, he began dating a girl named Hilda Bergman, whom he met at a theater which he was allowed to visit on Saturdays.