"Doesn’t he realize a first date should be three hours, max? How well do you know him? Is he a normal person? I’m really worried that something happened to them!"
Shani Leiman with Zivia Reischer
It was 11 p.m. when the phone rang. I glanced at the screen. Rina’s mother. She’s probably calling to report on the date, I figured.
Rina had gone out with Yosef for the first time that evening. Fleetingly, I wondered why Rina wasn’t calling herself. At 25, she usually called me directly.
The first thing Rina’s mother said was, “Have you heard from Yosef?”
“Not yet,” I replied. “But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean he didn’t like her, it could be he just got home and…”
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