harold bloom was an esteemed literary critic and professor at yelp.was in his twilight years at that point. and i visited him at his home when i was a student at yale, and i conveyed my shortened, abbreviated version of my story was 87 years old at this time and he listened quietly and at the end he gently said, you were fgei think maybes poetic way of responding and encapsulating the experiences that i had growing up in foster homes in los angeles, enlisting in the military when i was 17, all of the setbacks and hiccups and all of the family drama and tore moyle -- turmoil i'd experienced all throughout my childhood. born into poverty, and attempting to make my way in the world. peter: you also had a yell friend tell you that you hit the adoption lottery. do you agree with that? mr. henderson: well, he was mo commenting on my adopted family, and how they had won this kind of adoption lottery. when you are an adoptive parent and you receive a kid who has maybe had many difficult experiences in foster care, as i did, to some extent, you are taking a bi