“A nd then she tells me that they didn’t go to a psychiatrist!”

here was a pause on the other end and Aviva cradling the phone to one ear as she rested on the couch imagined Suri shaking her head in disbelief.

“I was so confused I didn’t know what to say. Was it a different doctor who prescribed it then? I thought you needed a psychiatrist to diagnose—”

Aviva gave a sharp laugh and her mother hard at work dusting the seforim shrank turned to Aviva with a raised eyebrow. Aviva lowered her voice. “Suri don’t be so naive. There are ways to get Ritalin without a prescription.”