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he’d been very sorry to hear about his father-in-law’s heart attack but what did Hershel Levinsky expect a man of his age running around like a teenager? He wasn’t in the best of shape either if she wasn’t mistaken. And who would run his camp she wondered in mock alarm.

Chaim reassured her that his father-in-law would be okay and that he seemed pretty determined to make it to camp. “Of course it’s up to the doctors. He really has to take it easy so we’ll see how it works out. But he doesn’t talk about anything else besides camp.” Chaim smiled as he said this as if he imagined his mother would find it endearing.

His mother pursed her lips and shook her head but she said nothing.

She asked how he was keeping busy and he kept it light. He told her how he’d started learning with the rav each morning how he monitored his investments after that how he’d started running at the high school track.