CJ Korman was normal? The guy who kept a full-time gardener on staff? Who had taken his family to Iceland for Pesach? Who had an alarm on his whiskey collection?
“Yay, Daina! You haven’t been here in, like, foreverrrr!” Daina smiles and edges her way past the intimidating woman at the door
“He says maybe if he gets rid of all his possessions, his life will become simpler. Life gets complicated when you just have too much”
By her reckoning, the business should have been a failure, but she did the numbers and there was no question that the JS Spectra Fund was doing well
“Mommy? Mommy!” I say. Two tears travel slowly down her face. I jump up and bend closer to her. “Ima! Ima! Mommy’s crying!”
When asked to repeat it, she sings a second time, then a third. Until the man raises his palm. They’re done


















