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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Garden
Childhood
Enemy
Forever
Within
Mother
Would
Moses
Time
Stayed

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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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