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Teen Scene

by Malky Hollander ever took just barely skims the surface of what lies ahead.

It hurts to go backwards in order to figure out why you do the things that you do. To figure out why you made the choices you did, and to wonder now, if you could do it all again, would you? To take apart the past when you’re content with the present, for the sake of your future.

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miles ahead of your sister, your cousin, your best friend. To find that somehow, the page you were all on together has now been separated into two totally different chapters. To have to start racking your brain for conversation topics that won’t lead to frustrated arguments and spiteful words.

It hurts to go to your closet and find you have nothing that you’re comfortable wearing. To wonder how you could have been once, and wonder about all the people you affected by making poor choices. It hurts to throw out carefully picked sweaters and skirts, to walk around in a long skirt and zipped up sweatshirt, because you’re scared to take the leap.

It hurts to break down and cry. To take off your well-worn mask, even just for a minute, and let your guard down. To let the self-doubts, the fallen expectations, and the old scars rise to the surface.

It hurts to feel, even for a little while, the raw emotion that dwells inside every growing soul.

And it hurts to leave. To say goodbye to all your new friends. To the roommates and the teachers, the rabbanim and family. To the dorms and the classes, the neighborhood and the Kosel. To the Land where you were privileged to stay for ten whole months. To the place that now feels more like home than any house ever did.

All that hurts. It does. But at the end

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TEENS TALK ABOUT LEAVING….

With the school year over and summer in full swing, let’s take the time to reflect, rejoice, and aspire for more.

GROWING PAINS

By Batsheva Lyons

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he thing that people don’t understand about seminary is that it’s painful. Oh, it’s fun, of course, and it builds up to be an unforgettable experience, but notwithstanding all that, it hurts.

It hurts to be told that the way you perceived life until now was wrong. That the hashkafos you live by are twisted. That everything you looked at as black and white, as truth and lies, is really mixed together, in a dark murky shade of gray. That the biggest step you

of it all, when you’re on the plane, with your tear-stained face pressed against the glass, watching the tiny country grow even smaller, you know one thing for certain: it was worth it. Because like most things in life, with true growth comes an element of pain.

NAIVETÉ

By Yael Farzan know those magical people— Wetheallones who seem ethereal, almost untouchable, more like thoughts than humans. Sometimes they are individuals, other times general groups of people. In

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the map of life and the people in it, you are miles away from them, too far and hazy.

Like blurry and soft-edged images in your mind, they are picture-like characters in your storybook of imagination. You have them floating somewhere up high, steady and immobile, because you carry them in a bubble. You know they’re not perfect, because nobody is, but they’re close to being very…complete. Everything about them falls together and fits.

As a kid, living in Los Angeles, I still shrieked when I recognized celebrities, filmmakers, and famous authors. I used to think, in high school, that renowned Torah speakers would fly out voluntarily to teach us a shiur for a day. I used to give small change to the homeless people

holding signs by the freeway and call the White House to release the imprisoned criminals I regarded, in my 15-year-old wisdom, as innocent. In eighth grade, I thought the president held the most esteemed occupation. And I regarded seminary girls and yeshiva students as the most spiritual and lofty people in the world. They were unreal to me.

But as we know from our kindergarten days, all bubbles pop if you try to touch them. Even the prettiest dolls are not everlasting; they break if you play with them too often. And the most popular girls are not always the happiest; those inspiring teachers worry about their salary, too.

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By: Sandy Eller

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fter a nine year hiatus, Yehuda! is back with an all new album, thrilling long time fans and attracting legions of new listeners with a variety of well chosen songs that are executed to perfection.

Yehuda! grew up in Cleveland, and by age 15, having learned music from his father’s orchestra which played at local weddings, he knew how to sing, play keyboard, guitar, drums and synthesizer and was also well versed in studio engineering, building and operating a recording studio and arranging music and vocals. Discovered as a teenager by the legendary Toronto-based, record producer Zale Newman (of Shlomo Carlebach and Uncle Moishy fame) ,Yehuda! went on to release six extremely popular albums which featured one hit after another including Modim, Higher and Higher, Vi-haeir Eineinu, Dovid Melech, Eftach Pi, Umacha and more. In high demand, Yehuda! circled the globe, performing in Canada, Israel, Mexico, South America and all across the United States, singing the national anthem at a Florida Marlins game and most recently at an evening with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks for the Cleveland Jewish community.

After 15 years as one of the top names in the Jewish music business, Yehuda! took a break,

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noticing that his sons had inherited the family talent for music, Yehuda! began to perform once again, this time with his two boys, Daniel Moshe and Yaakov Chaim, settling down, getting married, starting a business and raising a family. But over time, noticing that his sons had inherited the family talent for music, Yehuda! began to perform once again, this time with his two boys, Daniel Moshe and Yaakov Chaim, as the lure of the stage and the studio beckoned invitingly.

The result? The first of a trilogy of albums titled Rak Likayeim Mitzvos which features Yehuda!’s beautiful vocals and signature style, with dance songs to inspire you to simcha and songs from the heart that utilize a variety of musical genres, many composed by names that are new to Jewish music. With themes that fit the post-Shavuos season including thankfulness, the joy of Torah learning, the sweetness of davening, trust in Hashem and the importance of expressing true simcha, Rak Likayeim Mitzvos is an impressive album, whose title track features the words of Mesilas Yesharim reminding us that our goal in life is to do mitzvos, serve Hashem and meet the challenges that come our way.

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engineering all done by Yehuda! in his Cleveland studio.

Having recently appeared at the Pesach Niagara Falls Experience and the annual Yeshiva University concert, both sellout performances, Yehuda! is once again delighting audiences in both his inimitable exciting and his moving ways. He looks forward to using music to spread his positive message far and wide, on stages, at dinners and at simchos around the globe.

“Our musical message is that if we do what we are sent here to do, namely standing strong and steadfast, serving Hashem and being mikayeim our mitzvos, then surely we will experience the ultimate simcha and geula, speedily in our time,” said Yehuda!. As he sings on this new album “Vi-nomar Amein”!

Rak Likayeim Mitzvos is produced by Zale Newman and is available at Judaica stores and online at www.Yehuda.org, MostlyMusic, iTunes and Amazon Prime Music

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AND RETURNING…

to them, to knock on their door and see them up close. And if you really want to, it will happen. I’ve tried it. But then, you notice the whole picture, and that’s where the complications develop. You don’t necessarily see the negative side, although you might realize the flaws and imperfections you never had the opportunity to know about before—but even just seeing the stark realness, the humanity, of the person is surprisingly disappointing.

My epiphanies in life: Celebrities have younger siblings and strict parents and get wrinkles when they get old? Our school pays hundreds of dollars to bring these well-renowned Torah speakers to teach us? Homeless people have the opportunity to go to free shelters?

My phone calls to the White House Comment Line didn’t have any affect?

The president did that? Seminary girls do that? Yeshiva bachurim smoke?

“You’re so naive,” my friends told me, laughing. “We’ve known that for ages.”

And they were right, I was naive.

But was it really so bad to think that way? Everyone bashes idealism, subconsciously associating it with socialism and communism and every other utopia and kibbutz-like existence.

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day one? Why not believe in the good of people when you’re still young?

“We’ve known that for ages,” they told me.

I feel bad for them.

They’ve missed out.

Yes, the bubble must someday pop, and the cloud of fairy-tale quality gradually dissipates. But why burst it yourself? Why wave away that cloud when you can just let it take its time?

Why not watch that beautiful, albeit unreal, bubble float away and enjoy its pleasantness for as long as you can?

Because once the image has become sharper, and you notice corners and eye colors and defined edges, once the romantic character becomes just a normal person, you realize that you’ll never think of them the same way again.

It takes a great deal of courage and maturity to still admire those disenchanted people, those imaginary characters—who, in reality, are plain and ordinary like the rest us—for the good they do, for the positive we always saw in them before the quirks and

flaws surfaced. Yet when we succeed in creating and painting the real pictures of our champions, and accepting their entire characters, we actually become closer to them than before.

TIME: FRIEND OR FOE?

By Malky Hollander I counted down the days R eunion! in heady anticipation. Our last classmate was getting married, baruch Hashem, at the age of 25, and my class looked forward to our first reunion since our graduation, six years earlier.

Weeks before the wedding, chain calls buzzed down the class list reminding everyone to come, and come on time. Some classmates would be making a trip of an hour or even two each way to participate in the wedding, but they knew it was well worth it. The reunion promised to be as exciting an experience as meeting friends after such a long and life-altering break can be.

I imagined the surprises that surely awaited me. Six years was a long time, at least for women in their twenties, and so much must have changed. My classmates had married, some moved away, had children, hopefully, and probably held down some kind of job. Each of them had made a new life for herself.

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I walked into the hall and spotted the table immediately. It was abuzz with excited chatter, even occasional shrieks. There was Shany, and Chaya, and Rina. And Goldy! I hadn’t seen her since her wedding. And there was Tova with her twin babies! And who was that near her in the short black sheitel?

Could it be Naomi? Wow, how she’d changed! And there was Perel walking toward the table; she’d come in from Lakewood, my more knowledgeable friends were saying.

Time. My, did it change things.

Then Malka joined the table. She sat down near—my heart skipped a beat— Roizy. Roizy had always been a nice, well-meaning, and well, very plump girl.

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She had never made it socially, lacking sorely in self-confidence; I don’t know what led to what. Most of us had tried to be nice to her, and somehow she survived the school years.

Which was really a miracle with Malka in our class.

Malka had been the thin, tall, and popular girl who had everything going for her. She always had a knot of admiring girls around her, earned by her charisma and wit.

Roizy rubbed her the wrong way.

She always said the wrong thing at the wrong time, and her appearance was not pleasing, either. Malka deftly kept Roizy out of her social circle, not in an overt manner, as that would be unfit

of game and story ideas, but I often devise original activities that I know my specific group will enjoy. We work according to the book Chafetz Chaim L’Tze’irim (for young people), covering the halachos outlined there through the story, skit, or game.

for supposedly mature high school girls, but directly enough for Roizy to be humiliated. Whenever Malka was around, Roizy suffered.

Now I watched Malka sit down near Roizy, whom she only noticed after she’d taken her seat. Roizy, who was now not fat, but positively obese, smiled and chirped a friendly hello. I held my breath.

How would six years change this scene?

Malka nodded, smiling thinly, and went on to share excited greetings with other classmates. She didn’t so much as acknowledge Roizy’s presence past that first moment.

The tears came so fast, I had to escape to the bathroom before they’d be noticed.

Time had betrayed me.

the halachos of shemiras halashon and has an obvious interest in growing in that area, too, which in turn will positively influence her charges.

When a leader is positive, the girls catch on to the energy. One friend told me that the girls in her group argue over which one will host the next shemiras halashon gathering!

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JL: Hi, Shaina! We want to hear about your work in shemiras halashon. Can you tell us what your job entails?

SB: Every shemiras halashon leader is assigned a group consisting of one or two classes (between 3060 girls) which assembles every Friday night to learn the halachos of shemiras halashon. Smaller groups get together in someone’s house, and larger groups, like my group of 60 second-graders, meet in a classroom.

We start half an hour after candle lighting, davening Kabbalas Shabbos together. Then we begin the shemiras halashon activity.

For younger grades, there is a story, skit, or game with a shemiras halashon mesage, and in older grades, they learn the actual halachos. Every leader is equipped with a booklet

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JL: What qualities do you think a girl needs to have to be a successful shemiras halashon leader?

SB: I think the most important thing to have, and display, is a positive attitude toward the girls. When you come in with a ready smile for everyone and the girls feel your interest in them, they will be eager to learn.

Also, a leader has to know what interests her group and how she can best reach them. Some groups learn best with stories, others with skits, and yet others with games. A leader has to adjust her agenda to fit her group’s interests.

And finally, when a leader learns the two daily halachos herself, she can be a real role model for her group. She is also knowledgeable in

JL: Do you see positive changes in the girls?

SB: Yes, definitely. The girls listen carefully and internalize the ideas, and I can see that they remember the stories and halachos from previous weeks. Also, I see that they actively apply the lessons we learned. Once, when a girl started saying something, her friend interrupted her, “Don’t you remember that we learned that we’re not allowed to…” It gives me so much chizzuk to see that the girls are growing.

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It wasn’t fair. Of all the people who deserved that parking ticket, it wasn’t me.

I am one of those guys who will drive around Boro Park for two hours just to get a legal parking space. I would never block a driveway or park at a hydrant. I also would never double park or park at a bus stop. Even though I despise driving in Boro Park, I am too straight to play with the law. So you can imagine my horror at returning to my car, which had been parked at a legal spot, only to find it being hoisted onto a city towing truck.

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“We’re practicing lifting cars to see if the gears are working,” said the tow truck driver.

I was about to say, “How dare you use my car for practice,” when it dawned on me that he was being facetious. “Seriously why are you towing my car?”

“You were parked in a driveway, and the owner called us to remove this junk.

His words, not mine,” the driver said as he pointed to a middle aged man standing in his driveway.

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I never realized how little space there was in the back seat of a police car. What do they do with a very large criminal? homeowner and was ready to give him the same brachos my wife gave me the last time I forgot our anniversary, when he beat me to it.

“Who do you think you are, parking in my driveway? Are you out of your mind?

You think you own this street? You’re lucky I only flattened your tires and didn’t break your windows!”

The words I had lined up for him vanished as the last sentence hit me like a Mac truck. “You’re lucky I only flattened your tires…?” I looked at my tires and noticed that they were indeed flat – every one of them. I could feel the blood building in my head. My fists tightened and I was about to turn around and give this guy a fat lip, but I did not notice that I was standing on a tree stump on the side of the driveway. As I turned, I slipped and fell right onto the homeowner, knocking him to the floor.

“Help! Police! Help! He’s beating me up!” This idiot was screaming his head off while I was busy getting up and looking for my glasses.

“I am not beating you up, so stop screaming,” I screamed back. “If I beat you up, you wouldn’t be able to scream at all,” I added, feeling a little like a muscle man. In truth, I couldn’t beat up my baby sister. I was always the delight of school bullies. But I was still angry at this total injustice.

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“Who put that tree there?” I asked, pointing to the tree stump. “I tripped and fell on you, and it’s all your fault because you had my car towed for no reason. I should sue you!” I yelled.

“Help! He’s threatening me! Help!

Police!” The man was frantic and acting like his car was just towed for no reason.

As the tow truck driver smiled and waved goodbye with my car in tow, I began to hear sirens. I gasped as three police cars screeched to a halt in front of the house. Six police officers with guns drawn surrounded me and told me to get on the floor.

“I was just on the floor!” I said in total shock. I raised my hands and looked down the barrel of a gun aimed at my face. “Get on the floor, now!” yelled the officer again.

“This is not fair,” I tried to explain, before four big burly officers pounced on me and handcuffed me. They then picked me up and threw me into one of the police cars. I never realized how little space there was in the back seat of a police car. What do they do with a very large criminal?

After ten minutes of speaking with the owner of the house, one of the officers came back to me and told me I was under arrest for threatening the life of a civilian.

I could not believe what was happening.

I park legally, only to get towed, and then trip over a tree stump and fall onto the idiot who had me towed, getting myself

arrested. This was totally unfair! “I want my car!” I yelled as I was driven off to the station.

I had never been in a police station before, and it felt surreal standing next to someone who could very well be a hardened criminal. As I stood at the front desk, I felt like asking for my room key.

This was “Hotel Erev Rav.” You check in, but you can’t check out. I looked at the tall, skinny teenager with shoulder length hair at my side telling the officer that he hadn’t meant to stab his friend, but he was angry. He then turned to me and whispered, “Don’t get me angry.”

I tried to explain to the officer that I was innocent, parked in a legal space, tripped on a tree stump, and accidentally fell on the homeowner. The investigator listening to me seemed to be in another world. I don’t think he heard a word I was saying. He walked to the door and said he would look into the case. I, meanwhile, was put into a holding cell with six other prisoners. I quietly found a corner where I slid into a vacant floor space. I was almost afraid to look around, but I did anyway.

Directly across from me was this bear of a man who must have been seven feet tall and four hundred pounds. One big shtik cheftza who stood wherever he wanted to, whenever he wanted to, whether the space was vacant or not. He could have carried my car away. In my mind I was already making plans to visit that homeowner with this moving mountain at my side. I smiled as I imagined this monster uprooting that silly tree stump.

Next to him sat a middle aged man wearing two earrings, a nose ring, and tattoos everywhere. He was a walking coloring book. Pictures covered his arms, his neck, his chest, his legs… He did have a clear space on his forehead that I considered renting to advertize my business.

“Hey, Rabbi.”

I hoped there was a Rabbi somewhere in the cell. One of my eyes furtively

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wandered up and noticed the same teenager who had stabbed his friend calling to me. I didn’t want to make him angry, so I looked up and said, “I am not a Rabbi, but can I help you?”

“Yes, Rabbi,” he continued. “I have this apple here and I would give you a piece, but I don’t have my knife on me. My friend has it.” He and a few others started laughing. “By the way, what blessing do I say on this apple?”

I looked up and saw that he indeed had an apple. His question was sincere.

“Are you Jewish?” I asked, half hoping he was not.

“Oh, yes…I am Jewish and my mom is Jewish. My dad is Puerto Rican, but I am a proud Jew. My name is Benjamin. So what’s that blessing, Rabbi?”

I stood up and looked at this Jewish neshama. I noticed that my other five roommates were watching my every

move. I walked over to Benjamin and took off my Yarmulka and put it on his head. I said, “Repeat after me…Baruch… atah…” When we finished the bracha, I was shocked to hear everyone in the cell answer “Amen.” Benjamin had a great big smile and what looked like a tear in his eye. He proceeded to eat the apple.

“I’m also Jewish,” boomed Mr. Mountain.

“So am I,” the moving billboard informed me.

It seemed that everyone in the cell was Jewish. I didn’t know whether I should be proud or ashamed that six Jews were sitting and shmoozing in a prison cell.

After about ten minutes of verifying how each one of them was indeed Jewish, they asked me to tell them more about Judiasm.

I told them about Jewish history and the giving of the Torah. I told them about our time in Egypt and I told them about

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G-Grandparents are also our link to our glorious past. Their expertise and life experience can guide us and help us stay focused on our life’s goals.

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Lesson Two: Staying connected GPS can give us a feeling of security in the knowledge that we are always linked to a higher power by our heartstrings, as well as via satellite.

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of following their intuition, which was in perfect order before the invention of the GPS, they end up going the wrong way.

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Never follow anyone or anything blindly. Most of the time you need to believe in yourself and trust that what worked for you until now will be the proper path in the future. Do not fall for the “everyone is doing it” syndrome. We need to stand on our own two feet and not allow ourselves to veer from the path because everyone is doing so. The same applies for fashions and the latest in any fad that can go contrary to our way of life.

Lesson Four: You are never alone Many people who use the GPS have to make long distance trips, and just listening to the instructions can give a person a feeling of companionship. Knowing that we are in Hashem’s presence will remind us that we are never alone.

Lesson Five: Patience One of the features of the GPS is it’s constant ability to recalculate. Any wrong turn taken will immediately give us a prompt. RECALCULATING. Many dread this advice, since it means rerouting.

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Steamed Asparagus with Mayonnaise Dressing Asparagus are in season this time of yearand abundantly available.

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White asparagus should be very well washed and may be used as is. Green asparagus may be infested. Insects are usually found in the tips, and under the gills. In order to use the asparagus, it is preferable to cut off the tips completely and then peel the stalks from the top down, removing the gills in the process. Once the stalks are peeled, they can be eaten raw or used in soups, salad, stews or stir- fries. If short on time you can always use the Bodek brand Ingredients 1 medium bundle asparagus 2 cups water

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Salt to taste 1 medium onion chopped 2 garlic cloves minced 1 Tbs oil 1 Tbs mayonnaise Directions Steam asparagus in a pot in shallow water, for 20 minutes. Alternatively, they can also be steamed in the oven with the spices. Allow to cool. Mean time sauté onions and garlic in oil for 10 minutes.

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Multi-Colored Hot Pepper Salad This simple salad is a favorite at our Shabbos table.

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Marinated Mushroom Garden Salad Simple and tasty made with seasonal ingredients.

What could be better? Delightfully different and refreshing!

Ingredients 8 oz. whole mushrooms (choose the smallest variety you can find, preferably button mushrooms) 1 red pepper, sliced in strips 2 scallions, chopped 1 head lettuce, well washed and carefully checked ½ cup (250 grams) cherry tomatoes halved 1/2 cup sliced black olives Dressing: ½ cup canola oil ¼ cup apple cider vinegar, or lemon juice.

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1 Tbs. maple syrup or honey 1 clove garlic minced 1 tsp dry basil Salt & pepper to taste Directions In large bowl, combine mushrooms, red pepper, and scallions. In a small bowl or blender combine oil, apple cider vinegar, maple syrup (or honey), garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Pour over vegetables, toss lightly to mix. Line a plate with washed curly lettuce and top with mushroom mixture.

Preparation time: 15 minutes Serves 6

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5-Minute Layered Bean Salad Beans are a favorite in our home. We favor many types such as dark kidney; Romano (speckled) , black beans or chick peas. Choose your favorite bean, even though I used the black bean to enhance the health of the dish for a meal in a jiffy. You can choose to add any kind of cheese for even more flavor.

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Preparation 15 minutes Serves 4

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Store Hours: Sunday 11:30-7:00 / Mon - Thurs. 11:00-7:00 / Closed Friday and Shabbos

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Tel. 347 404 7737 1305 47th St.Brooklyn, NY STORE HOURS: Sun.-Thur. 11-7 • Fri. 11-2 E-mail: coutureofftherack@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: coutureofftherack

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1868-47th St. • 718-438-8488