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A Story About the Power of a Nickname

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Neil Kramer Photo by ebeth photography A nickname, as Neil Kramer can attest to, can be life-changing. Growing up as a pampered... only child, Neil Kramer had no official chores to do! He did chores just to rebel. Who doesn't want THAT childhood? With a story about sleepaway camp... and the accidental nickname... he got there, here is Neil with "Pass the Juice." Neil Kramer Born in Queens, Neil rarely left the city until he moved to Los Angeles to work in the entertainment industry at such places like [...]

A Story About Sleepaway Camp and Finding Confidence

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Neil Kramer When I was eight years old, I attended my first year of Camp Kinder-Ring, a sleepaway camp in upstate New York. Our first breakfast of the summer was served in a wood-framed dining room, where bunkmates sat together at large oval tables. The waiters, 16-year-old campers, served us soggy scrabbled eggs and individual boxes of Kellogg’s cereals, my favorite being Sugar Pops. In the center of each table was... an aqua blue plastic pitcher which held the watered-down orange juice. “Can you pass the juith?” I asked another bunk [...]