started in the student councils, in the high schools, in the colleges. and, you know, i sort of laughed. i was in student council growing up, but nobody would confuse our student council with revolutionaries. and my dad ended up when he was 17 bautista's police captured him and threw him in prison and beat him halfway to death. and he fled cuba. my grandfather told him look, they know who you are. they're just going to hunt you down and kill you. so he applied to three universities, applied to university of miami lsu and university of texas. and ut let him in. so my dad -- my grandfather drove my father to the ferry boat. my father lay down on the floorboards in the bottom of the car to hide because the police were keeping an eye on him. and he got on the ferry boat. he had a passport. he'd gotten a legal student visa from the american consulate because he'd been admitted to