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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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