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-And your neighbor. ..is she tall and pale?
-Yes!
-And slender?
-Yes. Do you know her?-he asks, surprised.
-Does she have a beauty mark on the left side of her nose?
-What kind of beauty mark?-Janec laughs-What are you
thinking of?
I begin to think that I was mistaken and asked:
-Perhaps it's on the right side of her nose.
-What kind of beauty mark? What are you talking about?
-Perhaps you didn't notice...but her husband, does he have a
sallow complexion?
-Yes.
-Is his name Chaim?
-I think not, but it could be; the devil only knows...
-But her name is Chana!
-No, of course not! Sarah! I remember Sarah, for sure..
.I
used
to call her Saruchana..
.l
could never forget her name.
What a fool I was! Would a Jewish wife behave this way?
Translated from the Yiddish by Golda Werman
