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My dad turned 69 on Sunday, so the mishpucha all got together at Ben’s Delicatessen in mid-town for celebration lunch. My dad and mom brought grandpa up from Va, and my dad’s cousin Libby was there from her pad in the East Village, and Lois and Aunt Bev and Uncle Stanley eased on down from the upper east, rounding out the cozy gathering of jew-a-lisciousness. We spent almost three hours at the table, gabbing and snapping pictures and passing food and gifts and newspaper clippings around the table to each other. I got kind of verklempt being there with everyone. I guess I’m just going through a homesick phase lately and missing Passover this year was really hard. Then my dad said something like, “someday we’ll think of today as the good old days…” and then I almost lost it. I’m not even PMSing, so I can’t blame this sudden flare-up of familial devotion on anything other than pure sentimentality. I dunno, I just really like ‘em I guess. Somebody stop me before I start singing “Sunrise, Sunset.”

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