PERSPECTIVES → VOICE IN THE CROWD Issue 956 · April 3, 2023

Going to Town

I’m not saying to consider out-of-town girls before in-town girls, just asking that you give them equal consideration

Going to Town

 

This is a column I have long wanted to write, but could not.

Now is my window. Baruch Hashem, we just married off a daughter, and with our next daughter just ten years old, I can publish this column without appearing self-serving.

The term “out of town” is ambiguous, because it can mean different things to different people. Once, Brooklyn was in town, and everywhere not-Brooklyn was out of town. Monsey was in the conversation for a bit, but then Lakewood moved in and easily reappropriated the title.

So whatever “in town” means, I address myself to you, specifically to the mothers of in-town boys.

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