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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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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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It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.
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