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She was quiet for a few minutes until she finally said “I wouldn’t encourage a friendship with her.”

I have moved my thoughts toward last year to our very last conversation the conversation where we were supposed to “clear things up.”

“Genendel,” she said, in a voice filled with emotion, “can you believe that this Shabbos is my baby’s bar mitzvah?” ,A Cry of Life,“Ora, it’s not just your baby! It’s Klal Yisrael’s baby!”

I’d been waiting for those magic words to happen, and jumped out of my seat. Six periods down, two more to go. Gosh, summer vacation couldn’t come quick enough