It was late evening when I got the phone call. “There’s a speech at my house that I’m sure you want to hear,” said my friend Bassie. “Not tonight,” I begged off. “I’m exhausted and so are the kids.” “You’ll regret missing this one,” she insisted. “This is going to change your whole perspective on life.” And so, at her insistence, I came and met Malka Goldberg. And hearing her story indeed changed my entire life.
“Ima I want to go play in the park.”
“Okay Daniel we can go when Abba comes home.”
“I want to go now!”
“You know I can’t take you alone. It won’t be long and then we’ll go.”
“Ima there are so many things you can’t do! You can’t walk you can’t write you can’t pick anything up off the floor you can’t wash dishes you can’t give baths …”
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