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Aug 16, 2007 03:29

When I was 3 or 4, it dawned on me that I never heard anyone except our family talk about Jewish things. Christmas I heard about all the time when it happened or was impending, but not Hanukkah or Purim (or Pesach and the High Holidays, though I probably didn't care about those then). No one else seemed to eat or recognize Jew food, either.

I asked my mother whether there were more Jewish people in the world, or more Christian ones.

"Christian," she said. "A lot more."

pre-illness eidetic memory, alienation, succinct, identity, jewry

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