“What do you mean, declare bankruptcy?” I asked in horror. “That’ll destroy our credit rating! And who knows what other headaches we’ll have because of it?!”
Even if the stories were true — and the people outside his family insisted they weren’t — how could his own family be the ones to spread those tales?
“Everyone’s looking at me,” Devorah complained. “Wherever I go, I feel people’s eyes examining me to see if anything is ‘on the way’ “
In Russia, you didn’t tell your parents about your problems, because they had enough problems of their own. Children knew to be seen and not heard
Sometimes, at night, I would be so panic-stricken about having to go to school the next day that I lay there in my bed unable to breathe
I was perfectly healthy, with no risk factors for the disease. No one in my family was sick. And I was a good person!
