For G$, from Best of Craigslist:
my high school freshman english teacher had us read ayn rand's "anthem" and i fell in love. over the next few years i bought or was given several of her books.however, any time i'd start reading one of them, my mom would say that i was acting like an asshole. i had to assume that there was some correlation.
now, i sorta consider myself an anti-capitalist anarchist. if you have to put a label on it.
but i still have all these ayn rand books.
perhaps you have a similar yet opposite story and we can respectfully trade off the errors of our youth.