Shira was genuinely shocked. Was her mother-in-law really changing, or was she imagining it? Or maybe she was just that desperate to get rid of them
Podcast: “I think that every single one of us has been in denial at least once.” —Angela Duckworth, No Stupid Questions Ep:95
Shira looked around the room. She’d been vegging all day and had no energy to schlep the kids out now.
“We wave the flag and dance with the Torah,” Racheli was telling her dolls.
Shira sighed. The things we do for kids. If it were up to her, she’d stay home, even though it was Simchas Torah. New town, new people, supposed to be sociable and smiley when she had no one to do it with. Adulting was hard.
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