You don’t know how strong you are until you face a challenge.” To this day, David believes his father to be the “most consistently strong man” he ever met. “You don’t know how strong you are until you pick something up. “Strength exists when it is tested, right?” David says. No matter the circumstances, his father got up in the morning to work multiple jobs and provide for his family. “But because of his malady, he needed courage beyond being a father and husband.” David never saw his father run, only limp. You didn’t want to mess with him,” he says. This led David to question the very notion of what masculinity is. Towards the end of WWII, his Dad developed multiple sclerosis. I have not ever forgotten those lessons and sympathies.” “Growing up in East Richmond in the late 50s and early 60s and going through my boyhood was an education in how to navigate differentness and otherhood. “My skin’s white, as white as theirs, but I was different,” he recalls. He and his family were the only Jews in town. Growing up in the small town of Sandston, Virginia, David was tall and talkative but ethically and culturally different than his peers.
This resulted in a profound sense of him wanting to do good by others. Robbins, the son of WWII veterans, went through boyhood with the feeling of otherness. “Whatever you are writing about, you want it to be authentic.”ĭavid L.
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