He played piano and worked hard in school. 'Kids are always cruel, and they pick on kids for being different.'Ĭhristopher was small for his age. So even though we were here in America, we were still distinct,' he says. 'My parents really wanted to hold onto our Chinese heritage. Although he was born in the United States, Christopher is the son of Chinese immigrants, and he never felt like he fit in with his American classmates. But one day in a nurse's office, he found out just how vulnerable he was, and it shook his whole world. Christopher Yuan thought he was invincible. He was once a big-time drug dealer, and a big-time partier.
