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“Abby’s not giving the baby a bris — Heidi told me” 

She obviously had a story, and I was curious

 “I’m open to it,” I answered, and took the leap into a world I had hardly heard of

While I groped for ways to climb out of the slump, I didn’t have the luxury of emotional space to figure out how to move forward

e eternal words of Rus the Moavis reached down through centuries of mother-in-law/ daughter-in-law dynamics to guide me

It doesn’t help that I have an irritating anthropomorphic attitude toward inanimate objects, worried that they will “be sad” to be abandoned and alone in the world