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"Despite all my mother's personal problems, she seemed to be more consumed with the ill world's problems[.]"

"I must have been in high school when my mother first made the observation, 'I am coming from the fair. You are going to the fair'.”

"My father died on June 30, 1931."
Revised version of "A Monument For My Parents" (2013)

"I am 87 years old. I am moderately well off. I believe I am a normal human being with no weird habits or eccentricities."

"Remember the old time radio quiz shows?"

"In my mother’s will (of all places!) she wrote, 'In the event that my son Jacob should prove to be a writer, I would like him to use the name Goldstein or Tzirlson'."

"It seems as if I have been going to meetings all my life."

"On November 3rd 1888, in Vaslui, Romania, a baby girl was born." (Fragment/Introduction)

"I have a bumper sticker on my car that reads: 'The Labor Movement. The Folks who Brought you the Weekend'."

"I grew up in a small apartment that had a real French watercolor painting on the wall, along with two small Dutch oil paintings, a marble bust, a China closet filled with cut glass, and expensive mahogony furniture." (Fragment)