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The Jew Crew, originally uploaded by emilyrems.

The moment my deadline ended on Friday, I busted a move uptown to my Auntie Bev’s house to hang with the mishbucha aka the Jew Crew aka my family before my parents headed back from whence they came. There have been two or three of these gatherings of the clans in the past year or so, because my dad keeps digging up new family members with his genealogical research and likes to introduce us all to each other periodically while amazing us with the latest family history tidbits he’s been able to find by scouring the world’s oldests and mustiest archives. This time the guests of honor were a very nice cousin one-billion times removed visiting from Holland with her husband and three squirming kidlets. I actually liked watching the kids run around screaming at each other in three different languages while tearing apart my Aunt’s upper east side digs, but they left early since the kids were so crazed. A bunch of other people I’m somehow related to but don’t know at all followed in their wake until it was just the core four you see above (l to r: my Grandfather’s cousin Libby, my Dad, me, my auntie Bev) and my mom who took the picture. I like the small group that remains at the end of these things the best. Inevitably, my Auntie Bev will pull out the old photo albums so we can all gasp at the ancient wedding photos and marvel at how my grandmother looked like a silent film star, and how my dad’s mean-spirited uncle got away with murder because he looked like Errol Flynn. Maybe super-futuristic Jews will see my picture decades from now, and talk about how I look like a Far Side cartoon or something.

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