On being bullied by his brothers
“They used to abuse me daily. Maybe just for fun. Maybe because I was different.”
Sam recalls receiving his very first trophies for honors in football, basketball and track. “I was so proud of those trophies,” he says. “My older [brother], he was so jealous and he just broke them in front of me and it was just the saddest thing. I couldn’t have anything without them destroying it or taking it from me.
“They called me a lot of things. They called me f–, they called me gay — anything you could think of, just to hurt me.
“I know one day I will forgive my brothers for everything they did to me.”
