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How to give kavod to boys who’d rather be elsewhere

I’ve gone against the group. Add that to Tzippy’s shidduch, and I’m pretty much a social pariah

Is he shy? Is Daddy putting him at ease? Oh, let him be comfortable in his skin — at least one of us should be

“Why do you have to be so mature?” she said finally. “Why do you have to say the things that just take my whole rant and somehow defeat it?

It is an old — a very old — photo album. Daina clutches the album gingerly, afraid to disturb the cracked, crackly sheets of plastic

“It feels funny, doesn’t it? Going somewhere so off-the-beaten-Jewish path. Everyone will be staring at us like animals in the zoo”