I know famous musicians, I know actors and film stars and millionaires and novelists and top lawyers and television executives and magazine editors and national journalists and dustbinmen and hairdressers, all who were looked after children, fostered, adopted or orphaned, and many of them grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground, as if it were somehow Kryptonite, as if it were a time bomb
Ik ken beroemde muzikanten, acteurs, filmsterren, miljonairs, romanschrijvers, topadvocaten, televisiebazen, tijdschriftredacteuren, journalisten, vuilnismannen en kappers, allen waren ze pleegkinderen, geadopteerd of wees, en velen werden volwassen zonder te durven spreken over hun achtergrond, alsof dat op een of andere manier hun status zou verzwakken, alsof het een soort kryptoniet was,