I'm pleased to present Leah, one of my old friends from Pennsauken, whom I haven't seen in 30 years. Looks pretty good for an old broad of 56---better than I do, in fact. I'm hoping to get down to where she lives, but with the current price of gas....
She hasn't changed a bit, looks like. I cropped this from a larger photo showing the whole family, which I'll post shortly. Her parents emigrated to Isreal after retirement, and she hadn't seen THEM for about sixteen years or so, what with raising a family and airfares, so I'm glad she finally got over there. Her family was very good to me, almost like my OTHER family, in a way. I hadn't seen them since we moved in 1971, and it's a bit of a shock to see them as old. It's funny, but you never actually think of people you know as aging, even when you KNOW they must have. I still remember them as they were then. Of course, the changes are mainly exterior, because under the skin (be it ever so wrinkled) we still ARE the same as we were then.
To Leah and her family---biz ah hundert und tvanzig! Amen, selah!
She hasn't changed a bit, looks like. I cropped this from a larger photo showing the whole family, which I'll post shortly. Her parents emigrated to Isreal after retirement, and she hadn't seen THEM for about sixteen years or so, what with raising a family and airfares, so I'm glad she finally got over there. Her family was very good to me, almost like my OTHER family, in a way. I hadn't seen them since we moved in 1971, and it's a bit of a shock to see them as old. It's funny, but you never actually think of people you know as aging, even when you KNOW they must have. I still remember them as they were then. Of course, the changes are mainly exterior, because under the skin (be it ever so wrinkled) we still ARE the same as we were then.
To Leah and her family---biz ah hundert und tvanzig! Amen, selah!
2 comments:
Holy Moses, has it been that long since I've dropped by?! Oy.
Well, here's lookin' at ya, old buddy.
Leah
My mom was here for our son's Bar Mitzvah celebration, but my father was already not quite well enough to travel. I hadn't seen Mom since, because Dad's memory is now such that she's afraid to leave him home alone overnight. My younger brother, S., who made aliyah 28 years ago, warned me to come to Israel as soon as possible--he said that he didn't know how long Dad would still recognize me. I think I made it barely under the wire.
Leah
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