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“You’re the worst Tatty ever.” Avrumi kept quiet. Tzvi scowled

Yup, she was definitely my daughter. There was a lull. I stayed quiet for as long as I could handle the silence

“You realize you made it, Portman, right? Like, you’ve arrived?”

“You can do better, Chana. Yehudis, who made your community, deserves better. So does the shul”

Yosef was listening, Ephraim could see. He took his own words seriously, but he’d also learned how to listen to other people

Sholom Wasser had been doing this long enough to recognize the look of a bochur who wants to talk, but doesn’t have the confidence or courage