The night the Guernseys came to dinner was not the right night. Mother said they’d misread. “No,” said father, “misjudged.” Now they waited for the first course, and we were unprepared. How had they so miscalculated? Hadn’t they known we did things differently on Shabbat? There they sat, ridiculously wedged in against Zayde’s low oak […]

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