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#29 Pets
"Growing up in the Bronx, I believed that Jewish families didn’t have pets."
Mishpukhe
"As an only child of a widowed mother who had a sister in Paris and a brother in Vaslui Romania, I didn’t grow up with a lot of family around."
Mishpukhe
Alternate (earlier?) version of Mishpukhe
Family - A first draft
"I was born in the Bronx in December 1927 to a mother who had come from Vaslui, Romania and a father who had come from Kishinev, Bessarabia which was part of Russia."
Cousin Robert
"For years, during the '80s and '90s, while watching television, I would see the name Robert Schlitt among the writing credits."
I Take My Cousin to Her Prom
"My cousin Rozzie is 3 ½ years younger than me."
Discovering Relatives
"What do you do when you discover foreign relatives you never knew you had?"
From One Extreme to the Other, In Four Days
"Friday, December 19: Gotta go! The flight to Rochester leaves at 8:01 a.m. and it is now 6:15 and you are not dressed?"
My Father's 83rd Yahrtseyt
"My father died on June 30, 1931."
Small World
"My father was born in Kishinev in 1884, came to New York when he was around 20, leaving his parents and several brothers and sisters."