I constantly feared how the community would deal with me as an Out AYF-er or ARF-er. All this was done, however, while I hid an important part of my identity. As an Agoump rat, I grew up in a very Armenian and traditional household and community here in Montreal, attending Sourp Hagop Day School, participating in the AYF as a local and Central Committee executive, and later joining the ARF ranks-as the Karabagh movement was at its most critical moments.
