ALABAMA
The Birmingham News
By Carol Robinson — The Birmingham News
Jason Lee wakes up every day and has to remind himself that he is worth something.
The 36-year-old former Homewood resident constantly measures himself against those around him and, in his own mind, always comes up short.
“I feel,” Lee said, “like I am less than.”
This is no pity party. It’s his way of life — a tragic mindset instilled in the throes of adolescence when, in the wake of his parents’ divorce, someone he looked up to as a father figure took his complete trust and twisted it into tragedy.
“The bottom line is,” he said, “I was just a kid and he used me as a sex toy.”
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