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When Andi answered the phone, Grandmother was mid-sentence in panicked speech. These calls were not new, they had been coming with increasing...
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Shimshona remembered well when the boy was born. It was a warm summer day, and all the women of the family were hot..
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Who'd have thought I'd ever find myself at the center of a mess? I wasn't tough, God knows...
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Yesterday was Shabbos. I went over to Joel’s apartment. I always go over to Joel’s apartment on Shabbos.
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It never failed. Whenever the sergeant was looking for a chump—someone for a patrol or KP, someone to help dig a latrine...
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Nine-year-old Jack stood peering through the screen door of the stifling kitchen, redolent with the aroma of gefilte fish simmering on the stove — fish that had been swimming in the bathtub until that day...
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On Saturday night in the George Washington High School gymnasium, the local Jewish Senior Center holds its summer dance...
He was a nice man, and older than forty. He was average height, well built...
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Rosen blamed the keening of gulls, the gentle crash of surf on Positano's pebble beach, and the cries of the Italian children at play...
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Of course, it was entirely my fault. I should have known what was likely to happen...
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