'I Surrendered Myself' "He was the first person frank enough to tell me that I had talent but that I was wasting it — that I was going nowhere, doing nothing," Mr. Shankar said.
"So I surrendered myself, and in surrender knew the damnation of the utterly corrupt".
"I surrendered myself to the old way," he said, "and let me tell you, it was difficult for me to go from places like New York and Chicago to a remote village full of mosquitoes, bedbugs, lizards and snakes, with frogs croaking all night.
I could see the light spilling out from underneath it, and if I could just bring myself to open the door and step inside I would come upon some semblance of earthly grace, an imposed order that would feel natural if only I surrendered myself to it.
"I surrendered myself to it".
I surrendered myself to the music and removed myself from the process.
In a June 26 press conference Ryan Kendall, now a college student, described how his life was destroyed by undergoing conversion therapy: "At the age of 16, I surrendered myself to the local department of health services.
"They are sending mediators so I will surrender myself," he said, "but I won't do it".
A young man at the Steinway played a few bars of "Body and Soul," and Blair gamely sang, "I'd gladly surrender myself to you, body and soul," then stopped and smiled quietly when nobody else joined her around the piano.
