Sweet Deal

I didn’t know what I’d see, but one thing I saw pretty clearly.

One of my clients….

I heard the hesitancy in his voice.

I knew every one of his clients.

Tuli had a cosigner for me.

And I knew with absolute certainty who that person was.

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I told Avner Marton that I was working to bring in a cosigner, he should give me a few days.

Then came those few days.

I tried to go about my life as usual. Learning, davening, Malky, the kids. But it was like someone else was acting in my place, while the real Gershon Grunbaum loitered in Tuli’s backyard, among the weeds and freeze pop wrappers.