“Being angry all the time takes a lot of effort, and it uses up so much of your energy, you don’t have much strength left for anything else”
Shoshi couldn’t sleep. She thought about the afternoon out with her mother and sister. The start had been awkward. The atmosphere had been more like a waiting room in a doctor’s office than a mother-daughter outing.
“So,” Shoshi had exclaimed after several minutes of total silence. “This is really nice, huh?”
Both her mother and Yocheved had turned toward her in the back seat, their expressions identical.
Shoshi had looked from mother to sister and burst out laughing. Her mother had laughed before Yocheved, but then Yocheved laughed too.
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