I was very scared for the future of my son, Alexander. I wanted to be free, and, more importantly, I wanted my son to find out what freedom means.

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On the surface, I had a successful career and I was doing what I loved. But if one would look deeper, one would see a person who is totally uncomfortable about lots of things around him. The lack of freedoms ? with freedom of expression being the most important to me ? made me often feel suffocated.

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