[Leica] Confession time!

[keith at wbalaw.com (Keith R. Wessel)]

:-)

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From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Confession time!

> When I was growing up in the 50's in our first house in Rosyln hts,
Brower's
> Hills Long island New York all the kids in the neighborhood were either
> Catholic or Jewish. I am half Catholic and Jewish as it turns out. They
said
> I had a choice and when I saw the Catholic kids got at least one day off a
> week for some holiday I sure wanted to be Catholic. But it turned out I
> didn?t have a choice as a kid. What kid does?
>
> Also a few weeks after my Grandma died I asked my Mom how she was doing in
> heaven.
> "She's not IN heaven" She said. "WE'RE JEWISH!"
> That sure clinched it.
>
> When we moved to the North Shore of Chicago the demographics of where I
> lived was way different. I asked a kid on the sidewalk if he was Catholic
or
> Jewish.
> He said he was Presbyterian.
> I asked him if he went to temple on Saturdays and had multiple wives.
> He said he'd check but he didn't think so.
>
> The next kid I asked said he was a Episcopalian.
> I asked him if he went to temple on Saturdays and had multiple wives and
was
> pretty sure he'd say yes.
> But he said he had only one Mom he knew about and resented the
implications.
> I stopped asking.
>
> Turned out we were the only Jewish family for miles.
> They weren't so fond of Catholics either.
>
> But then I went to high school and they had jimmied all the boundaries
> around.
> My friends from grammar school would pull me secretively over to the side
of
> the hall and for instance ask me what a "schmuck" was.
>
> "Something you call somebody you are real fond of" I might have said.
> And they would have not been fooled.
>
>
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
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