FEATURED Issue 1065 · June 11, 2025

What We’re Here For

Do you have a safety pin? Rolling pin? A bowling pin?

What We’re Here For

But next week, she’s coming to my apartment.

She’s coming to town on Monday for a Tuesday wedding, and her side is making sheva brachos on Thursday and then she’s going to Shabbos sheva brachos, so she’ll be in my apartment until Friday. She really is a lovely woman, but we only have one shower, and she can make herself invisible as well as an elephant can.

I’m talking to my oldest friend, venting about first-world problems like having only one shower in my comfortable apartment, and that my husband comes from a large, warm family.

She validates and listens just enough that I start to take it back.

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