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You know, the Boyquare School was at this mansion at the end of this long winding road.

And you got to that road through these very windy back roads in New Jersey.

And then the driveway opened up to this huge oval.

And at the end of the oval was this incredible mansion.

And I remember pulling in and parking with everybody else that was moving in and thinking this was such an extraordinary place.

And I had won a lottery ticket, you know, kind of a Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory like moment.

And I was incredibly excited to be there.

Lawrence Lessig is a law professor at Harvard and one of America's most famous lawyers.

He's been called the Elvis of Internet Law.

But lately, he's been focused on the influence of money on Congress.

He was briefly a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in 2016.

Before he was the name, he is today.

He was a kid in Rapid City, South Dakota, where he was born and where his father built silos for minute-man missiles.

They eventually relocated to the small town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

As a kid, he loved to sing.

And when Lawrence Lessig was in the fourth grade, his church choir director suggested he go to a summer camp in Princeton, New Jersey at an elite boarding school called the American Boyquare School.

He was so good that the school invited him to stay and joined their official choir, meaning he'd be away from home for most of the year.

Your father didn't want you to go.

No, he was very strongly opposed.

And it was kind of a billy-eally at moment where I had to plead with him that this was my, you know, chance to see the world.

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