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When either my conscience or appetite was particularly insistent, I’d spend my lunch break with Oma “NU?Tell me sumsing nyew.” Diminutive, brassy hair stiffly coiffed, Oma was serving me her specialty: Gruenebaum’s rye bread, fresh from the freezer, lightly toasted and schmeared with Fleischmann’s salted margarine. Oma lived diagonally across from the school I attended
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Fork in the Road
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When either my conscience or appetite was particularly insistent, I’d spend my lunch break with Oma “NU?Tell me sumsing nyew.” Diminutive, brassy hair stiffly coiffed, Oma was serving me her specialty: Gruenebaum’s rye bread, fresh from the freezer, lightly toasted and schmeared with Fleischmann’s salted margarine. Oma lived diagonally across from the school I attended
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