He did the best he could with the tools he was given
The call came in the middle of a frantic Erev Shabbos Hagadol.
“I’m at Harlan Braude’s house.”
“Is everything all right?”
Harlan’s next-door neighbor answered with words that continue to haunt me: “I think Harlan is dead.”
Harlan Braude was born on September 14, 1957. His parents were hardworking people, who, to the outside world, seemed like any other regular Jewish couple.
However, as is the case more often than not, what went on inside the home was anything but normal.
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