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Cross these questions off your list — because I’m not going to answer them

But then came 1944. And evil came between the five sisters and their future

We were living off my night shift paychecks, but making jewelry filled me in a way that reams of data entry never could

Just about everything — from the time he left the Mirrer Yeshivah until he married our mother — was wrapped in layers of secrecy

There was one problem: I’m scared of THE BALL. You know, the ball

 “You’ll see,” she said in a soft, melodic voice. “This will be motherhood, just a different kind”