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We were slaves in Egypt, my mother said, and today we're slaves of Stalin, exiled to hard labor in the Siberian taiga, without rights and without the slightest hope of rescue.

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Well, well—you escape from hell and here’s the devil in your face.

Isn't it remarkable, my mother said, what people can take pleasure in, what they can believe in, in times of need?

Then the concert would begin. Fool or not, Mona Bubbe knew exactly how to behave when she felt accepted rather than pushed away.

What a country this is, she couldn't stop thinking, where as a new chapter of life begins, the children are teaching their elders how to be Jewish.

If this wasn’t the good life, what was?

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