Bel Kaufman has died. Her maternal grandfather was Sholem Aleichem. Her other grandfather was my great-great-uncle—my great-great-grandfather's older brother, Jacob Kaufman. She was still teaching at 100, writing at 101. I grew up knowing about her, but I never read any of her Yiddish stories, only the famous novel. It's a good novel.
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- 1: Reading your mind is like foreign TV
- 2: If one year's back on my shoulder
- 3: Me, I'm a rotten audience before I've had my coffee
- 4: I'm not on my own
- 5: You know what comes right after the dark
- 6: When you turn a solemn promise to a blatant lie
- 7: I wish I grew Annapolis apples up above Fundy Bay
- 8: Kicking a peach pit till I worry it's blue
- 9: I liked you better when you weren't cool
- 10: Oysters, shards of glass from the sea
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