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You are there when I’m asked how many children I have, and I hesitate before I answer

Was I emotionally ready to move on, to actually remove my husband’s books and papers that hadn’t been touched in years?

Babi was out. Grandma was also out. Bubby for sure was out. Bubby was the stuff of tales from the alte heim

The furniture was old, not old enough for vintage charm, just old, but it meant summer to us

Yes, a convert is still allowed to love his or her biological parents, something many Jews don’t realize

I wasn’t sure what to tell you, and, more importantly, when and how to tell you