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be always kept the Pontiac polished to a lustrous sheen but on this pleasant June day the automobile glowed Annie thought with a shine that didn’t come from Abe’s loving care and his little can of Simoniz car wax.
In these days of increased gas rationing just traveling by car was quite a treat but that too didn’t explain the radiance that seemed to hover over the passengers — her father-in-law in the front next to Abe her mother-in-law and Abe’s Bubbe in the backseat with Annie.
This was she decided the glow of accomplishment the sparkle of Yiddishe naches the satisfying brilliance of a job well done. Abraham Levine — their Abie — was graduatingColumbiaCollege and everyone in this car was simply bursting with pride and love.
They reached the Morningside campus where the commencement ceremony was being held in plenty of time; because of rationing traffic jams were a thing of the past. Abe went off to don his cap and gown and join the milling crowd of graduates while his family took their seats.
