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My husband and I got married last June in a simple ceremony at New York City Hall. A week after our wedding, he went back to his home in London, and I stayed in mine in New York. We’d been together for five years when we got married, during which…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Arno Michaelis, a former neo-Nazi who works with the organization Parents for Peace that helps radicalized individuals. It’s been edited for length and clarity.For seven years, I was a white nationalist skinhead and the front man of a neo-Nazi metal band…