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Time, I thought, did not fly by so fast. He is 20 and, doggone it, it took me 20 long years to get here

One of my teachers used to say, “If you’ll laugh about it in five years from now, don’t cry over it today.” Apparently, she never made Pesach

But in the muted, mint-green corridors, I learned how very fallible the body is, how little we can trust it. We humans are always at its mercy

What do you know? Every woman above the age of 40 sided with my father. They were completely unimpressed with my chinuch

It comes to him there in the chilly dressing room, kicks him in the gut — what happened before he left, hours ago, a concert ago

For just under a dollar, I can dispense TLC, validation, and the easing of rules where they don’t really matter