“He said, ‘That’s what I do, and I can’t stop myself,’ ” Michael Adler said by phone. It was inspired by a conversation Mr. Adler once had at a dinner party in the District. “A guy told me that he had to go home to his wife,” Mr. Adler told The Washington Post in 1989. His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a clerk who was “always unemployed,” Michael Adler said. In 1978, Mr. Adler wrote an Esquire magazine feature about “rescuing” and “deprogramming” David from a cultlike commune run by the Unification Church, led by the Rev.

Source: Washington Post April 23, 2019 22:41 UTC