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Born to Frank and Esther Rose in San Diego, Eugene was raised in California, where he would remain for most of his life. He was baptized in the Methodist faith when he was fourteen years old, but later became an atheist, losing all belief in God. Rated at genius level in formal IQ testing, in San Francisco he entered a beatnik phase in his life and practiced Buddhism.
During his junior year at college, Eugene began pursuing a secret relationship with Finnish-born Jon Gregerson, through whom he came into initial contact with the Orthodox faith. Eugene came out as homosexual to his closest friends after his mother discovered letters penned between her son and Gregerson. Eugene shed his identity as a gay man as he slowly accepted Orthodoxy, eventually ending his long relationship with Gregerson.[ttp://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/PCMSP01/saint.shtml]
==Orthodoxy==