Who’s going to say the brutal words to Ima? Nobody’s volunteering
“Who’s going to break the news to Ima?” Chaya S ilver asked Nechami.
It was a tough question. Who would come and stir a pinch of reality into Ima’s lovely dreams? Who would arrive with two-year-old Yossi in a stroller, go upstairs to Ima’s house to see the gold brooms she’d bought, and be the messenger who would trickle this other information in, ever so delicately?
This isn’t a job Nechami wants to take on.
But here she is, climbing the stairs, hand in hand with Yossi. They knock on the familiar brown door.
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