Had she broken her daughters’ spirits? Shprintza was filled with remorse for all the ways she had erred before learning that parenting was a Thing
You know the platitudes about not being able to change the past, only the future? Turns out, motivational posters lie a lot. Though you probably knew that already.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves, which, as we’ve seen, can lead to disaster. So let’s start in the middle, and explain how a successful, corporeal professional managed to unravel the very fabric of her family’s past.
It all started with the magazine that accidentally slipped through a wormhole connecting 1863 to 2021. (To understand how that works, please see the most recent magazine profile of a world-renowned astrophysicist who also happens to be frum; apparently, there are loads of them, patiently littering the halls of MIT waiting to be discovered.)
Etty Glustein, the new hire, was a sweet young thing in duty-length knit sets and velvet smoking loafers. Just right for the front desk of Sichah Beteilah, the premier women’s magazine. She was not, however, possessed of particularly incisive intellect. Specifically, she didn’t realize that in Shprintza Weiss’s subscription form, 1863 was not the street address but the year.
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