Do you know what it’s like to be lied to? To be told something by someone you trust and believe them without question and then find out that it was completely untrue and they told it to you anyway because they knew that by the time you found out it would be too late?
Boruch hadn’t expected him to get married again. According to Daddy,it wasn’t his plan either.
“Really? You want to spend time with me? Or you just need to report back to Daddy?” “So you’ll call us when you land, okay, Heshy?” Bernie gripped the wheel tightly. Ruchy was checking her lipstick one final time before they turned off the highway into JFK. “Before or after the seatbelt sign goes off?
Ma must’ve been under a spell when she bought a house next door to Nava
“Don’t” she hissed. “Don’t even try your suave act. Nothing you say will get me to forgive you. Why?” her voice was climbing in pitch and volume. “Why do I devote hours and hours of my life to your shidduchim when you actively try to make yourself the least desirable bachelor alive?”
“I know Shabbos is hard for both of you. But I’m in shanah rishonah. Do you have any idea what it’s like to be married for just two months and have your mother show up at your door in tight pants?”
