Early Life
Mark D. Naison was born in 1946, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. As the only child of Jewish intellectuals (both schoolteachers), Mark D. Naison had an easy childhood. Although he was happy as a child, Naison felt different from the other kids because he was rather plump, which made him feel ostracized from his peers because his parents put such an importance on being non-plump. Naison rebelled and turned to sports as an outlet and to help him fit in better with the neighbor kids and lose his plumpitude..
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