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“Well, Libby, how would you feel if your sister married a ger?”

“I’m a shadchan,” she told me. “I love working with singles. And you know what, you look like a wonderful girl”

I’d spent the last few years stressing about what will they think about me

“I don’t like it when people decide to do their ‘chesed for the day’ by being nice to a giyores”

I could never find a good opportunity to say, “Hey, by the way, I converted to Judaism when I was little”

I wanted to see what would happen if I shared my past with one of the friendly, popular girls in camp