We gave them $100. They made someone’s day. 9 stories
We’re the sort of people who love museums. Don’t groan, we’re definitely not boring. My parents just loved arts and culture, and they passed that passion down to us.
On a family vacation to Europe, the Louvre was the highlight of our Paris itinerary, the wax museum our destination in England. We used to joke that Mommy could find a museum out in the wild. We’d be vacationing in a cabin in the woods and somehow, Mommy had museum passes for us all.
When my father passed away 14 years ago, my mother stayed in Israel for five more wonderful years, before my brothers accused me of not knowing how to share. So Mommy left to New York, and our daily visits turned yearly.
Then COVID-19 hit. My mother is medically fragile and confined to a wheelchair. I can’t risk spreading the virus to her, no matter how badly I want to see her.
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