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My
Children Pray
By Chana Weisberg
Shira searched for the shortest two chapters in the book.
With great care and effort, she began to recite each word,
in her most authoritative voice, waiting patiently for her
brother to repeat it. |
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First
Snow
By Chana Weisberg
I looked at it, and I wanted to crawl back under my warm covers.
My children saw it, and to them it was something to experience,
to feel, touch, handle and manipulate. |
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Sending
a Child Away
By Chana Weisberg
My rational mind understands that this is how he will become
the person I want him to be, the person he himself wants to
be. But my motherly instinct wonders: Will I become a stranger
to his thoughts and moods? |
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Monster
Dreams
By Chana Weisberg
Sobbing loudly, Naomi ran into my bedroom in the middle of
the night, for the fourth time that week. "Was it the
same dream?" I inquired, knowing what her answer would
be... |
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Making
the Grade
By Chana Weisberg
Slowly and reluctantly, she pulled out a crumpled paper from
her knapsack and, with downcast eyes, asked me to sign it.
The sad look in her eyes told me more than any number could
reveal... |
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Silent
Messages
By Chana Weisberg
"I'm trying to recall some of my earliest childhood memories
of my father," said my husband. "But I have none.
My mind is blank..." |
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Because
She is Mine
By Chana Weisberg
Ours is definitely a give-and-take relationship: I give her
everything I've got, and she takes. Yet precisely because
she doesn't give anything in return is the connection so strong... |