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the punch lines slipping by too fast for my ears to unravel.) Acquiring one’s daily (weekly, monthly) “prey” can also leave us more winded here, where “three-for-ten” means you must buy the three to get the deal, and refunds are not only not cheerful, but often non-existent. And yes, from my home in the Judean hills we can clearly
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’ve become more Israeli than I ever thought I’d be, at least when it comes to cats. Here, cats are little more than dumpster denizens, living paw to mouth, lean, mean…and seriously ubiquitous. They’re perceived (especially by kids) as a hybrid lion and rat, and treated with the commensurate blend of fear and disdain. That’s why I was so surprised upon my recent sojourn in America to find one family I visited in possession of a housecat. These people were as fine and frum as they come. They embodied Torah and ruchniyus (they didn’t even own a food processor which, to a cook like me, represents the height of prishus and material deprivation). Still, there it was a well-groomed Calico, fat and content, mixing with the mishpacha like an honored guest. Putting aside my personal feelings about having a cat freely share a human domicile, my first thought was to pity our local felines, dodging flung trash bags and scrounging for their supper, while their rich American cousins dined leisurely on Little Friskies. Perhaps, I pondered, I should take up a collection of used cat toys and litter boxes and discreetly distribute them upon my return around the local trash bins. My second thought, however, was different. Despite its impeccable grooming and robust limbs, there was something this pampered pussycat lacked
that its mangier Middle Eastern kin had in abundance: a certain spark, a joie de vivre—a spring in their paws. Less well fed…but free. My thoughts then turned to bigger cats—the type they have in zoos. In the best of zoos, these animals live in carefully conceived and executed facsimiles of their natural habitat. In fact, these pseudo savannahs are far more aesthetic and climate controlled than the real thing. Zoo-cats also eat much better than their wild brethren. While the latter have to stalk and chase down prey—avoiding predators of their own— big cats in the zoo get their meat on a silver platter, and their biggest danger is getting bonked with a bag of Bamba. Nevertheless, few would question that animals in their natural habitats live happier, healthier, fuller lives. Now I don’t know whether Eretz Yisrael is a natural habitat for cats, big or small, but it certainly is the natural habitat of the Jew. “G-d measured all the lands and found Eretz Yisroel the one perfectly suited for the Jewish people…” (Yalkut Shimoni 85, quoted by R’ Yoel Schwartz). True, the climate — both physical and sociological — can be challenging. (In America I could easily read road signs and even the ‘small print’. I could actually banter and not just smile dumbly and nod back at people who told me jokes,
hear the howl of our “natural predators”’ wailing from the muezzin at the break of dawn. But to me, these things are just part of the unique, soul-polishing quality inherent in the land that is “acquired through challenges;” a constant tutorial which builds and refines a Jew’s precious middos of humility and trust in none but Him. Here, in our natural habitat, our souls can soar like nowhere else. Here, G-d isn’t a concept, He’s an active character in my daily reverie. His “Rod” and His “Staff ” are constantly propping me up, or poking me when I deserve it, but always prodding me forward, closer to Him. Life here goes either l’maaleh min ha-teva or l’matteh min ha-teva, but very rarely in between, keeping me constantly aware—whether I want to be or not—of “Ain Od Milvado.” I know this is officially supposed to be a cooking column, but somehow all this talk of cats has my digestive juices flowing in the wrong direction. (Anyway, what could I write about-- pet food recipes? Homemade cat-sup?) So instead I’ll leave you with a poem written in honor of my trip, my return, and the upcoming Fourth of July: Roses aren’t reddish. Violets aren’t blue-ish. So too let’s be Jews. And not merely Jewish. I’m glad to be home.
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ecently, a ceremony was held marking the receipt of building permits and the beginning of construction of the Ramat Givat Zeev neighborhood. The event took place in a beautiful model apartment located on the slopes of the hill where the most popular neighborhood in the chareidi sector will be built. The building permits were issued after extensive lobbying efforts by ministers to lift the building freeze that was in place. The developers were extremely pleased when the freeze was indeed lifted, and permits were issued—as were the hundreds of buyers from Israel and abroad who are waiting for their opportunity to realize their dream of living in a luxurious neighborhood in the Jerusalem Hills. The ceremony was attended by Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel, who has been very active in obtaining the permits for the neighborhood; MK Rabbi Meir Porush, who was also instrumental in finalizing the permits; the head of the Givat Zeev council, Mr. Yossi Avrahami; the former head of the Yesha Council, Zev Chever (Zambish), dignitaries from the American Jewish Congress, journalists and others. Minister Uri Ariel announced that an agreement had been reached under which 2,500 housing units a year would be released for construction in Ramat Givat Zeev. The large number of lots and its convenient location will make the
neighborhood one of the best places for families to buy homes, he declared. MK Rabbi Meir Porush said that Ramat Givat Zeev is an ideal location for the chareidi community, and that he would fight for its continued development and success. The head of the Givat Zeev council, Mr. Yossi Avrahami, said that Ramat Givat Zeev is becoming one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Israel because of its ideal geographic location and because of the quality of life and luxurious and spacious surroundings that it offers. He added that “we will do everything, together with the Housing Ministry and other government offices, to put more and more units in the neighborhood up for marketing. In addition, “we are doing everything to acquire more funding to be able to establish chareidi schools in the neighborhood.” Ramat Givat Zeev is the flagship project of Chish Nofei Israel, a leader in the real estate field with and in providing housing solutions for the chareidi community in Israel. The neighborhood offers a range of housing options with some 150 private homes and 250 luxury apartments. Ramat Givat Zeev has generated heightened interest in the United States and in Israel as a perfect solution for new olim. The actual construction is expected to being very soon.
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Bring Back our Boys Emblazoned on the buses We felt it in the streets It echoed in our minds We screamed it in our hearts Naftali! Gil-ad! Eyal! Three boys Three precious boys Innocent boys Our boys You were helpless We were helpless We only had One Hope We prayed to Him Bring Back our Boys teshuva, tefilla, tzedaka We were too late Naftali! Gil-ad! Eyal! We could not bring back our boys But Our Boys Brought us Back!
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n the next Sunday evening, Michel Blanche was missing at the nightly gathering. The other members of the group were worried about him. Michel had the reputation of being an ebullient young man. How could it be otherwise at twenty? When Sam Mandelbaum arrived, late as usual, he announced with a dismayed expression on his face that Michel and his seventeen year old sister, Anne, had gotten on board the Nice–Milano express train early in the morning. They were hoping that, after Saturday night's bamboozling, the Boches would still be tipsy enough in the early morning to let them through without problems. Mandelbaum had tried to dissuade them from going. “But, you understand, only twenty minutes and you're free…the temptation was too strong!" After this unsettling revelation, the debate became very lively, but Jo just took out his Book of Psalms and recited a few chapters while trying to refrain from shedding tears. *** Michel and Anne, wearing their best clothes, bought first class tickets for Milano so that they would not look like fugitives, but rather like tourists, which could still be seen in both directions on the Nice–Milano line, even in these troubled times. Born in France, speaking French without an accent, possessing identifying documents in their real names which did not sound foreign, they thought that their plan for escape was close to perfect. They intended to leave the train at Vintimiglia, the first Italian city, and hide in the Dolomite Mountains until the Allied troops reach the North of Italy, which they thought could only be very soon. In the beginning, everything went according to plan. They mixed with the crowd of travelers and the German guards, who indeed were not yet completely sober, let them through without a hitch. Having found a compartment with two available seats, Michel and Anne sat down opposite each other, pretending not to know one another. They remained silent, lost in their dreams of freedom. The train station chief 's whistle blow, the all clear signal for the train's machinist, sounded to them like Redemption's ram's horn. Twenty minutes more and everything would be different, the nightmare would be over, once and forever! Cities followed one another past the window: Villefranche, Saint Jean Cap
Michel understands right away the complexity of the situation. T h e o f f i c e r h a s g u e s s e d t h a t h e i s J e w i s h a n d t h i s i s t h e e n d o f t h e v o ya g e f o r h i m , b u t h i s s i s t e r m i g h t b e s av e d i f h e i g n o r e s h e r. Ferrat, Beaulieu sur Mer, Cap d'Ail, Monaco, Menton – a one minute break that seems like eternity – finally Cap Martin, the last French township. Now the train was winding along the picturesque, pink cliffs of the Mediterranean shore. "How blue the sea appears to be, even darker than the sky!" Michel thinks about his parents, deported from Paris already one year ago. While he was out, French police officers came searching their home. They arrested both his parents and transferred them to the Germans who deported them to the East. When he came home, he found Anne suffocating and frozen with fear inside a tiny closet. He comforted her and, since then, he has been to her like a father and a mother together. From now on, he mused, our lives will change completely. Another two minutes and we are in Italy! Suddenly, the train slows down before coming to a full stop. Michel becomes panicky: "What is going on, why are we stopping here, in the middle of the boondocks?" Anne looks at him inquisitively. Then everything moves very fast, but for Anne, the tiniest details will forever be engraved in her painful memory. The carriage's doors are brutally opened and five or six gun-toting S.S. soldiers get on board, taking down – seemingly haphazardly – those passengers whose appearance they happen to dislike. A very young officer, blond and blue eyed to perfection, opens the door of Michel and Ane's compartment. He smiles to Anne who forces herself to politely return the smile – and winks at her. Then, turning his attention to Michel, he orders him to get off the train. Michel understands right away the complexity of the situation: the officer has guessed that he is Jewish and this is the end of the voyage for him, but his sister might be saved if he ignores her. He leaves the compartment, without even a last glance at his beloved sister. If she will be saved, at least he will die with the comforting satisfaction of having done all he could for her. This thought gives him the strength and the courage to walk down the carriage resolutely. Anne too plays the game. She knows perfectly well that her beloved brother is lost forever, yet her instinct
of preservation takes precedence over her feelings, and besides that, she knows that this is what Michel wants her to do. Even so, she feels like her chest is about to explode. The rest happens like in a nightmare-- the screams of the passengers, the barking of the S.S., and all sounds suddenly drowned out by the crackling of gunfire. The train starts moving again, as if nothing unusual has happened, but Anne cannot keep her pent up emotions inside anymore. She collapses and breaks into tears, sobbing uncontrollably. No one makes the slightest move to appease or comfort her. She will remain prostrated like that until the train reaches Milano, where she will wander aimlessly along the busy streets, like a sleepwalker, until an old Jewish widow will pity her and take her to her home. *** Twenty years later, we are walking, my parents and I, along the fashionable Via Manzoni in Milano, on our way to Treitel's kosher restaurant on the Via Monte Napoleone, when we are stopped by a woman, screaming rather than calling the name: "Ruchamah…Ruchamah!…" We all turn round, only to see a distinguished looking, well-dressed woman in her forties rushing towards my mother. "Ruchamah…" she repeats again with wideopened eyes. "Do I know you, Madame?" my mother asks hesitantly. "Oh, Ruchamah, it's me, Anne. Don't you recognize me? Nice, the Rochambeau, do you remember now?" At the mention of the Rochambeau, flashes of memories pass through my mther's mind. She remembers: "Anne, the young orphan girl, and her brother…what was his name?" Then the two women fall in each other's arms. This is how we learn from a tearful Anne about the tragic end of her brother. Today, she tells us, she is happily married to a wealthy, Jewish Milanese diamond dealer, with whom she has built a fine Jewish home, including her son, a handsome young man who looks exactly like her brother and whose name is – as I am sure you have already guessed – Michel. The ways of Heaven are unfathomable!
Roland (Aryeh) Teichholz is an avreich moonlighting as a translator and freelance writer.
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hile I usually stick to topics I know much more about and where I have achieved expertise in the marketplace, here I’d like to talk about something about which I know (almost) absolutely nothing: How to help make a shidduch happen. You’ve been warned, so without further ado… Say there have been four shidduch dates, and there’s a certain uncertainty whether or not to continue. S/he has, you know, doubts if this is the right one. Because even though everything seems okay, there is just some little thing that is wrong with the “picture” (there may be a great aunt that was seen within the past seven years using plastic dishes on Shabbos), or just an ambivalent feeling about “is this the right one for my future?” So here’s a shidduch tip from the world of marketing insight and behavioral persuasion. “Don’t let them say no.” Instead of coming back and saying “look it’s not for me….” when there isn’t a clearly defined good reason for doing so that is good enough to kill off the prospective shidduch, it’s much better to say “I need some time to think about this.” Why? Because people are proud. And being too proud can color situations. A week later, you may find out that your own great aunt once committed a similar aveirah. (Well, it wasn’t plastic dishes, true, but you just found out, horror of horrors, that just over two years ago, she bought kneidlach instead of making her own.) If you had “put things on hold to think about it,” you can now come back to the table and tell the shadchan, “I’m ready to move forward.” If you had said “this is not for me,” then your pride might stop you now from taking the correct action and trying to move forward with the shidduch. Not to mention how many times people come back to a shidduch only to find that
the other side snorts and says, “Now they say yes? Well now we don’t want them!” The psychological principal of consistency is at play here. People want to be consistent with past statements even when internally, they no longer feel that way--- or shouldn’t feel that way, except for the fact that they do because of the very mistaken statement they made that put them into holding with their current belief. People who voted for Obama are much less likely to say he’s a bad president, although plenty of people certainly have remorse for doing so after some introspection. As those who voted for him, they will consistently justify his actions to themselves and to others. At the same time, those who voted against him will find fault with everything he does. If you see a client/child/whomever about to say an answer you really don’t want to hear, the time to say something is just in the split second before they say it and create the need to be self-consistent. By interrupting them and asking another question or coming from another angle, you can create a new opportunity to make agreement happen before you get stuck in the trap of “hamster wheel consistency.” There’s so much that can be done with these powerful techniques to start, enlarge, focus, and target opportunity for so many businesses… and in so many other areas of life. Nu, matchmakers? Please send in your comments about this article to the editor. And no, there’s no need to give me a percentage of your shadchanus fee! For the rest of you—make sure you sign up for the free weekly audio, with more insight about the weekly columns and so much marketing insight that it will make you giddy. To receive a FREE, weekly audio recording of even more of Rabbi Issamar's business nuggets, email englishupdate@ issamar.com today and have these valuable tips sent straight to your inbox.
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The Black Osiyos The small polish shtetl of Sochaczew is situated on the banks of the River Bzura in central Poland, about 55-60 km due west of Warsaw. To the heroine of our story, the little village seemed extremely large – it was her whole world. To her, the small, one room cottage of her parents had palatial proportions. When she began crawling, she discovered so many legs. There were Mamme’s legs moving the flat plate in between the iron legs of the sewing machine. A little later, she found out that the two other legs, wooden legs joined by a bar, always moved back and forth, back and forth in rhythm to a sweet song Tatte constantly sang. There were other legs in the home, including the running, stamping, joyful legs of her brothers when they returned from cheder. But most of the day the house was quiet with only the hum of Mother’s machine accompanied by the soul stirring melody Father intoned. She would pull herself up, holding onto Tatte’s legs and look into the large book placed on the rocking legs. Inside were black squiggles, many black squiggles. Tatte’s long tapering fingers moved along the lines of the black squiggles as if caressing them. She grew, and now that she was two years old, she realized that when her brothers went to cheder, they took books, smaller then Tatte’s book, but also full of black squiggles which her brothers told her were osiyos (letters). Mamme would often take her along to escort her brothers to cheder. As they walked away from the building the boys had entered, she heard them chant: “Kametz - alef– uh Kametz - beis, - buh Kametz - gimmel,– guh….” She asked Tatte, “Why? Why are the osiyos black? Why is there not even one picture?” Tatte replied, “We will go for a walk, a little outing, just for you and me.
You’re three and a half years old, a big girl already. I will tell you an ancient story that is relevant today. It’s a story you need to know. It has to be before your eyes, so you do not forget it.”
The Ancient Story Tatte takes her small hand in his with its long tapering fingers, the fingers of a scholar, and they walk along together. Sitting close together on the blue bench at the edge of the village square as his long fingers caress her cheek in the same way he strokes his Gemorah, he describes the miracles that occurred at Sinai. He tells of the spectacular meteorological disturbances that preceded the giving of Torah. The sun stood still. The heaven and earth came together and embraced. All the people saw the sounds: the kolos of thunder and the sweet singing of the angels. The blasts of the celestial shofar that, unlike human sounds, grew stronger and more and more powerful as they flowed from the mountain. The intense lightening caused all who witnessed it to tremble. The gentle rain. The earthquakes causing the mountain to shake. The smoke. The mysterious fragrant smelling purple vapor that covered the mountain. How fire and water made peace for the event and functioned in unity. The seven barriers of fire, one beyond the next, and the people’s power to see them all – “All the people saw the flames.” The whole world seemed to be on fire and the huge pillar of flame was fiercer then the fire of a furnace that erupted from the base of the mountain and pierced the very heavens. For 40 days the fire remained. The Torah was given- osiyos of black fire on white fire. There was the opening up of the seven firmaments and the revelation of the Thrown of Glory. Tatte says everything he just described occurred in the morning, and then silence enveloped the world. Not a single bird chirped, not a single cow lowed. No creature made a sound. The brook did not babble. A leaf did not JUNE 27, 2014
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The Cataclysm Not many days pass before she sees Mamme running around the house. All the drawers and cupboard doors are open. Mamme looks tense. “We must all assemble in the city square at 4 pm. Oy, what will I do? How can I pack only 5 kilos? Bobbeh’s candlesticks that I inherited are too heavy. Where can I hide them?” Mamme wrings her hands. Mamme runs around and around. Mamme helps her to put on triple layers of clothing and her coat. Also her shoes and boots. Why together? What is Mamme thinking off? It is so uncomfortable this way. What is this outing that we are going on? An outing with 5 kilos? She would rather go on an outing like the one she and Tatte took. They arrive at the city square. All the Jews are there. All the Mammes look tense just like her Mamme. All the children have triple layers of clothing, just like her. All are wearing shoes and boots. There are dogs all around, black dogs on four legs. And there are the black, uniformed dogs standing on two legs. The train puffing black smoke arrives. The train always takes Avremel her oldest brother to yeshiva. “Mamme are
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we all going to yeshiva like Avremel?” she asks. “No.” “Mamme, I don’t like this outing. Let’s go home.” The doors of the train open with earsplitting shouts from the frightening men in uniform. “Into the train!” People move forward, as more and more enter. Screams are heard: “There is no more space!” Yet the black, uniformed devils are wielding whips and forcing more and more people into the trains. Someone grabs both her shoulders and pulls off her coat. It’s Mamme who bends to whisper in her ear. “Run. Run into town and play with the Goyim.” “Mamme, you don’t allow.” “Now I allow. Don’t look back, no matter what you hear. Don’t look back. Remember Mamme and Tatte love you. Don’t look back. Go. Go.” “Mamme, let me come with you, please. I’m sorry I complained” “Go, my child, go.”
Yanuk’s “Find” She runs and runs and runs. There are blasts. Mamme said not to look back. Maybe if she looks back, she will become a pillar of salt as Lot’s wife did in last week’s parsha. She runs into the children’s playing field, all rosy-cheeked, and starts kicking the ball. Night is falling, and it’s getting so cold. A chilly wind blows. Why did Mamme take off her coat? What should she do? Will Mamme come? Where is Tatte? Only big Yanuk is still in the field. “Come with me,” he says. Should she go? Mamme does not allow. But to be alone in the dark? In
the cold? Mamme told her today she could play with them. She will explain to Mamme when she comes. She follows Yanuk. A big broad woman is standing by the gate. She screams at Yanuk. “You’re late, and your supper is cold.” The woman does not notice her at first. Then she sees her. “What’s this you came with?” The woman pulls her into a hug. “Good find, Yanuk. Good find.” The child resists. She hates the woman’s smell. Yanuk’s mother convinces the boy’s father to keep Yanuk’s “find.” I always wanted a daughter. This one is like a porcelain doll. Blonde curls and blueeyed-- no one will guess she is a Jid. It’s so clever of me. I always envied this child’s mother when I saw her walking with her. We will say she is my niece. The little girl sleeps the sleep of the innocent. How should she know she’s now an orphan, bereft of both mother and father? She is all alone in the world. All her family went up in the chimneys of the crematoriums. “Don’t dare speak Yiddish. I’ll …” She knows what that means. Only last night she woke up crying out “Mamme!” Yanuk’s mother slapped her so, so hard. “Quiet” she said. “Yesterday they took away the neighbors for hiding someone.” Her memories are fading. Things are dimming. All is merging. Yanuk’s mother (Mother?) commanded her to collect chicken eggs. “You will DO it. How does it look that my niece from the next village is afraid of chickens? What will people say?” Are these Mother and Father? This is my home. These are my mother and father. But
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continued from page -weren’t they different? What was the story Father told me? It was something about silence, about black fire. She asks Father. “What story did you tell me?” “I never told you any story.” “About silence, about black fire?” “Never!” he blasts. “Forget the whole thing.” She shrank back in fear as he banged his large beefy hand on the table. How had the hand changed? When had the long tapering fingers become short and square?
Passing on Her Father’s Story Years pass. She is now a beautiful young woman. Why does Yanuk look at her like that? Mother calls her aside. “Yanuk wants to marry you. It will be a beautiful spring wedding here in our yard. The roses will be blooming. The priest has been called, all is arranged.” Why not? Yanuk is good to her. He helps her with the farm work. Why not? A year later, she is holding a daughter. The most beautiful baby in the world. Blue-eyed with a lot of soft blond fuzzy hair. Yanuk is thrilled. “She has clever eyes. She will be a doctor, a specialist doctor,” he says proudly. Yanuk dotes on the child. He barely lets her out of his sight. He takes the little girl with him - everywhere. Her mother wants to tell her of silence, about black fire, but Yanuk eyes them like a hawk. Besides, she barely
remembers herself. The child is brilliant, unbelievably so. The teacher says, “If I did not know the village was Juden-rein, I would say she is a Jew. Ha, Ha.” Years later, another child is on the way, and she knows it will be a boy. My daughter I lost. But to this one I will make sure to tell about silence and black fire, she pledges to herself. A boy was born. She held his little hand in hers. He had long tapering fingers, the fingers of a scholar, like the fingers that held her hand on that outing. She whispered to him about silence, about black fire. The more she told him, the clearer it became. Black fire – osiyos of black fire on white fire. Yes, what was it? T? Tu? Te? To? Yes, yes but what else? Tob? No. Tor, yes, yes that’s it; Tor -ah. Torah. Torah given on a flaming mountain, with thunder and lightning and smoke. And fire - black osiyos of fire on white fire. There were blasts of a celestial shofar that grew stronger and more and more powerful as they flowed from the mountain.
When the Flood of Memory Returns The story’s blasts grew stronger and more and more powerful within her as they flowed from the well of her inner memory. She knew her majinikel had to learn Torah as her father had. Many times throughout the years,
she sat close to him on the blue bench at the edge of the village square (away from Yanuk’s prying eyes), her fingers caressing his cheek, repeating to her son what her Tatte had told her on that outing. Her daughter learns in the university in Warsaw. This one will learn Torah. But how? Where? Then the iron curtain fell. She was hanging up wash in the yard when she saw them pass, two of them. She knew them. With her wet wash still in her hands, she ran after them, calling from them to stop in Polish. The men turned in confusion to face her. What did this Polish peasant woman want of them? She saw their perplexity and words in a language she hadn’t used for years poured and tumbled out of her: “Einshuldick, Einshuldick, my son must learn Torah like my Tatah did. Like my brothers: “Kametz - alef - uh, kametzbeis - buh, kametz- gimel – guh… Please, please help me. Is there a place to learn Torah? Where can I send my son to learn Torah?” The two Jews told her that there were yeshivas in America and in Eretz Yisrael. On the spot, she decided to send her son with them to learn in the Mir. “Mother you cried so hard when my sister left, yet now you are dry eyed. We are so close, won’t you miss me?” “My son, my son, how can I cry when my heart is singing in joy? You are going to fulfill our destiny. My Mamme and Tatte would be so happy now. Go, my child, go.”
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