I was in high school when I realized that some people in my town believed I didn’t deserve to exist — Note: Some of the names in this piece have been changed to protect the identities of those who were minors at the time. I avoided the news, but my radio forced me to hear their names: Joyce Fienberg, Irving Younger, Rose Mallinger, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, Jerry Rabinowitz, Melvin Wax…