The first came easily -- for Mani's health to be 100% restored. The others, though, I thought long and hard about as I drove south through farmland and evening light.
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“I’ve really let myself go,” your grandmother used to say. And something in you perks up. Something that says, ooooh that. Yes. Let’s do that. Let’s let ourselves go, go and go and go all the way far far from this land of keeping up and not once passing “go.”
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But I couldn’t help myself. My love of Russia began to bang up against something else: The undeniable truth that Jews had left this place in droves, in search of the religious and cultural freedom of expression. Sure, some small communities had cropped up, particularly in the bigger cities, but here in the north, Jews were an anomaly — suspicious, strange, other.
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