10-22-2019, 02:04 PM
“We do not engage in a weekly shakedown,” he deadpanned.
Judging by the Wards, Christians knew nothing of planning nor budgeting.
Neither did two out of four brothers, but that did not count.
“Do you think you are the first Jewish man to charm a goy?” he said drily. “Foter’s side assimilated enough to gain office, and Penina married a Humphries.” He crinkled his nose, sighed, then took a sip of his drink before setting it down again. “Whatever you... both, decide, you should write Muter. Bubbe will not take it well, but... that is beyond our power now.”
It always had been. Zechariah never seemed to stop chasing their Orthodox maternal grandmother’s approval, no matter how much she had rejected her own daughter and grandchildren. Their father had been less stringent about traditional values, and their mother seemed to see-saw between vehement agreement and shame for disappointing her mother, and quietly charmed warmth when their father got her jewelry.
Judging by the Wards, Christians knew nothing of planning nor budgeting.
Neither did two out of four brothers, but that did not count.
“Do you think you are the first Jewish man to charm a goy?” he said drily. “Foter’s side assimilated enough to gain office, and Penina married a Humphries.” He crinkled his nose, sighed, then took a sip of his drink before setting it down again. “Whatever you... both, decide, you should write Muter. Bubbe will not take it well, but... that is beyond our power now.”
It always had been. Zechariah never seemed to stop chasing their Orthodox maternal grandmother’s approval, no matter how much she had rejected her own daughter and grandchildren. Their father had been less stringent about traditional values, and their mother seemed to see-saw between vehement agreement and shame for disappointing her mother, and quietly charmed warmth when their father got her jewelry.
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