How could she stand next to this guy for the rest of her life? How could she marry him, after everyone she’d passed up?
I insisted on one thing: They could have fun, hang out, party, whatever, but they had to date with focus
“Can I call her? Even if she refuses to see me again, I want to apologize. I feel terrible”
“You think you’ll marry him off and make a buck… if you don’t listen to me, I’ll never give you a penny!”
“You!” he said, pointing to Basya, who seemed to be organizing everything. “You go find out about the kesubah”
Shani Leiman with Zivia Reischer Nechemia was 28, highly intelligent, driven, and accomplished — an overachiever from a family of overachievers. Unlike lots of guys who schmooze easily, he didn’t do small talk. Conversations with Nechemia inevitably turned intense or analytical, and more than one girl had found his sense of humor a little too sharp
