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Mr. Wrong

The metal sound of clanking lockers amid the variable echoing rumble of a thousand adolescent conversations meant one thing… school had begun.  After barely surviving middle school, Katie hoped freshman year in high school would be the dawn of a new horizon with endless possibilities.   “I’m calling it the great awakening, because I hope it…

Speaking Yiddish

How did a young white bread shiksa girl from the south Chicago suburbs learn to speak Yiddish?  The answer comes from the most unusual place… at Christmas dinners.  In Chicago, the Jewish population was a mere shadow of its sister city of New York, so we didn’t have a lot of exposure.  Case in point,…

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