Input: And then I'll go Monday -- down to Bonn, or wherever those relatives are because I haven't seen my uncle in like three or four years, and he's just turning eighty and I like them a lot

Monday

like three or four years

eighty

Bonn


Input: uh-huh.


Input: In Bad Muenstereifel?

Bad Muenstereifel


Input: yeah,


Input: I'll


Input: guess it'll be summer

summer


Input: so he'll be in Bad Munstereifel.

Bad Munstereifel


Input: mhm


Input: They've actually moved.


Input: They don't live in Bonn now.

Bonn


Input: They live in -- %um, Bad Neuena. Which is I guess

Bad Neuena


Input: Bad Neuena ja.

Bad Neuena


Input: yeah,


Input: just a little bit down.


Input: But I think they'll be in Munstereifel.

Munstereifel


Input: And then my cousin, she still does live in Bonn

Bonn


Input: so I'll get to see her.


Input: And then I'll zip off to Berlin Right. mhm mhm go to this wedding and see my favorite cousin.

Berlin


Input: Don't tell the other cousins.


Input: uh-huh.


Input: yeah.


Input: Because you see, when I was there before I couldn't visit you because I didn't want to spend time visiting these other relatives in Bonn.

Bonn


Input: you're so diplomatic about all of that, you know


Input: Well I mean if I was visiting you, it would be very hard not to visit them.


Input: but n-


Input: But the year before I.


Input: I wouldn't, %uh, tell on you, you know.


Input: I know you wouldn't tell.


Input: But the year before I did it.


Input: But that's because of we just stopped on the train and I had, you know, two hours.

two hours


Input: And we had our wild lunch.


Input: yeah.


Input: And on again.


Input: yeah.


Input: That's


Input: We, %uh, commiserated.


Input: Yes.


Input: That sounds like you have you know its positive end result, which is good.


Input: I don't know.


Input: I mean, it's a change,


Input: that's for sure.


Input: It's a change.


Input: And it is a lot of work, obviously.


Input: yeah,


Input: I,


Input: %eh but you know I really don't know if it's a lot of work.


Input: I always have this feeling I'm just so terribly slow.


Input: I have this feeling I should always be doing these things much faster than I get them done.


Input: Well, so what if you're slow?


Input: You know, look at it the other way.


Input: yeah


Input: but I always keep %eh that I'm spending too much time, that I should be doing other things.


Input: yeah.


Input: I just had this talk about somebody who was you know, confirming, you know


Input: and I know I'm too self critical.


Input: So. It's not a good idea.


Input: Because I was complaining to them about my mother


Input: and they are this theory that, you know, what people do is a reflection of you.


Input: %huh.


Input: Because this woman had such a that people react to you as a reflection of you.


Input: And what I had mentioned about my mother bugging me was the fact that every time I see her or we even talk, she has to comment about my clothes, or what I'm wearing.


Input: and I was talking to this woman because she seemed to have such a good relationship with her mother.


Input: Like her mother treated her like a human being and not a kid.


Input: %hm yeah


Input: and so she said you know and she's just a reflection.


Input: You know your mother's being critical you know.


Input: Be you see that because you're critical to yourself too much


Input: Or you're filtering the information you get from your mother


Input: yeah


Input: but this is ridiculous.


Input: I mean %uh she's never let up on that.


Input: I mean it's crazy. You know.


Input: I don't I mean


Input: and I think no not the last time the last time on the phone I bugged her about something else that I been trying to not take anymore


Input: but then she cries


Input: but that doesn't work with me.


Input: uh-huh.


Input: That's good.


Input: Then she says I'm being mean.


Input: and I ignore the fact that she's crying.


Input: I'm pretty tough.


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: speaking of crying, I have a colleague. An American girl, a dancer. mhm at a school in Cologne mhm Who somehow or other has fallen in love with me.

American

Cologne


Input: mhm


Input: and now that I'm, going back to Duesseldorf she's all going crazy. %um and thinks %eh

Duesseldorf


Input: she's %eh concluded that I'm abandoning her.


Input: oho


Input: But it is


Input: Being stalked here?


Input: Pardon?


Input: In America, we would say are you being stalked?

America


Input: so he said to let your wife do it you know


Input: %uh right


Input: he says %uh you know no I'm going to


Input: %eh so now I'm at a point that it's very strange


Input: like I won't complain about anything


Input: or I can't complain about anything


Input: and I can't ask him to come help me in the middle of the night when I forgot to take out something they put in the freezer


Input: So we'll see how it goes


Input: hopefully


Input: I mean they promise me you know everybody that they're going to help me and that whatever I say


Input: But you know everybody gives you %uh these %uh pro-


Input: yeah


Input: so you've already started


Input: Well I've started working with Du


Input: like I don't cook anymore


Input: I haven't worked in the kitchen for a week already


Input: I've been just doing with him learning how to do the orders and meeting all the %um sales people


Input: and %um I've learned how to work the computer which is the bigges-


Input: I said I don't know how to turn it on even


Input: really


Input: So I'm not


Input: I don't know if I could do it yet by myself


Input: but he's showing me teaching me


Input: and I think like the middle of this week he'll be there a few days with me

a few days


Input: and then anoth-


Input: he %um


Input: Maybe here and there


Input: but he's really basically


Input: What is he going to do


Input: He's going to be a teacher for %um High school computers


Input: oh okay


Input: yeah


Input: so he's only teaching three days a week

three days


Input: so he always says that on the other days if I need him he'll come in


Input: the truth is he's been teaching and very patient and very good


Input: and he also is great that he has written down everything


Input: I'm sure he's thrilled to get out of there


Input: Well I'll tell you the truth %uh


Input: I mean now that I worked with him one to one He does do everything with his heart


Input: I mean he has a different head than everybody else


Input: like I know that he wants everything to be nice and to be good and


Input: but he's very separate


Input: and he doesn't like to listen to other people's %um ideas


Input: but %um I'm sure financially he was probably great for the kibbutz because he was cheap


Input: yeah


Input: because he's also


Input: I'll tell you


Input: I worked with him this whole week


Input: he doesn't eat a thing ever


Input: like all morning long


Input: so he doesn't eat


Input: he doesn't drink coffee


Input: I didn't see him drink anything water or anything else


Input: one day he said I better drink something I have a headache because it was really hot


Input: but I mean you know he doesn't eat anything


Input: and then for lunch when we finally went to go get something to eat Also he eats like a little What we would eat maybe half for a meal


Input: and that's it


Input: so I can understand now why he thinks that because he doesn't have big eyes you know


Input: right


Input: that's so funny


Input: but anyway


Input: no


Input: so he had agreed to do it for a year

a year


Input: and his year is over


Input: I


Input: are you excited at all about it


Input: or


Input: well I'll tell you the truth


Input: until I made the decision I was scared and also utz


Input: I miss the cooking part


Input: You miss it


Input: that's funny


Input: I


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: like this week even when they made the %um coleslaw you know & kept calling me to taste it and make sure that it was the way that I do it


Input: and so Matty said to me Ellen you didn't make the coleslaw

Matty

Ellen


Input: I said it's over you know


Input: I can't do everything


Input: tha-


Input: and they're going to notice that the cooking is different


Input: Well that's what even **ruthie** says you know


Input: everyone thinks that the economie is so important


Input: but there's a lot of things that are very important of running the kitchen


Input: and we'll see


Input: %uh right now Ramon %uh

Ramon


Input: you know Cocoa she got married

Cocoa


Input: She married that guy


Input: not the Israeli guy not the Sephardic guy but No you're kidding that little feminine kind of guy

Israeli

Sephardic


Input: No


Input: but reme-


Input: when I was there in October she had that guy from Yerushalaim that guy

October

Yerushalaim


Input: yeah


Input: 820.26_822.65_B: no


Input: but %um it was over already around then


Input: but they were still friends


Input: and this guy was a here or something drawer


Input: I think his family is Romanian or something

Romanian


Input: anyway


Input: yeah


Input: it was very fast


Input: and they got married


Input: How old is she?


Input: She's eighteen and a half

eighteen and a half


Input: she'll be nineteen in December

nineteen

December


Input: oh my god


Input: why did they allow that


Input: Well I guess they didn't have a choice


Input: but the worst thing was originally when she came to her parents and she was going to get married she was going to get married in October

October


Input: but she got engaged like before Pesach

Pesach


Input: so going to get married in October

October


Input: so they weren't so thrilled


Input: but at least okay it's %uh


Input: and then all of a sudden they came back and said no we want to get married


Input: they got married the I think oh my g- second week in June

second week in June


Input: on kibbutz


Input: yeah


Input: it was beautiful


Input: we do weddings %eh so much nicer than in the old days


Input: first of all we rent tables and chairs


Input: yeah


Input: so it's like


Input: and we did it on the grass outside the


Input: and it was beautiful


Input: we read


Input: that


Input: so she's like the first child who got married


Input: right


Input: and we rented beautiful china and silverware and glasses


Input: wow


Input: beautiful


Input: I must admit it was really really beautiful


Input: and then serving everything we use like %um all different kinds of bought kind of %um paper plates that


Input: uh-huh


Input: probably like the hard plastic


Input: and it was amazing because they even had like a bar set up


Input: and they had oh my go- fruit


Input: they had hay


Input: and then they had fruit


Input: it was gorgeous


Input: it was absolutely gorgeous


Input: Does she now have to do tzavah or no


Input: no no


Input: but %ah marriage is


Input: you don't have to do the tzavah


Input: oh my go-


Input: So she's working now in the vegetarian kitchen and the a little bit


Input: but she's going to study in September

September


Input: so that's not so long


Input: Does she cover her hair


Input: No


Input: oh I keep


Input: that other guy was real


Input: this one is


Input: I can not bel-


Input: oh this other one's like from a family that's not at all


Input: but he


Input: yeah


Input: they went to America for a month after the wedding

America

a month


Input: her grandparents sent them %uh oh my Even though they were mad


Input: you know the typical Ariella story

Ariella


Input: they came for Pesach

Pesach


Input: and then they told them


Input: they waited to tell them that they got engaged


Input: and the wedding is in June

June


Input: and they were so angry because how the hell could they come back after years


Input: that's true


Input: No


Input: so on one hand I understand them


Input: it's not fair


Input: No of course not


Input: 965.04_967.89_B: even they could have called them before Pesach

Pesach


Input: maybe they would've changed their minds


Input: but


Input: wait


Input: yeah


Input: Natan's sister was here also

Natan


Input: So they were all upset that the grandparents didn't come back for the wedding


Input: but I don't know


Input: you have to look at you know both


Input: oh my


Input: I can't believe she got married


Input: I


Input: she got married


Input: and then the week after Ta'al Paer got married

Ta'al Paer


Input: you know Ta'al is the oldest %uh girl on the

Ta'al


Input: I


Input: yeah


Input: where is she living


Input: Well her husband he looks like Mickey our Mickey yeah when Mickey was really young

Mickey

Mickey

Mickey


Input: so he looks really young


Input: %uh she just finished now the army


Input: and she met him during the army


Input: he's from a nonreligious kibbutz


Input: oh my gosh


Input: yeah


Input: So now they're living on his kibbutz %um because they allow like B'nai to live there

B'nai


Input: but I don't know they can work outside yeah do whatever they want until they decide what they want or do what they want


Input: do whatever they want


Input: study


Input: I don't know what they're doing


Input: his parents aren't even living on the kibbutz anymore because he's a professor of something or other in I don't know China or somewhere

China


Input: Singapore

Singapore


Input: I don't know where


Input: anyway so that was really weird


Input: like when she got engaged it was a little hard for Rachel because he's not religious and everyone was really upset

Rachel


Input: gosh you would think at least in Israel you would get what you want

Israel


Input: No


Input: but not only that


Input: what


Input: this kid just left the kibbutz at eighteen

eighteen


Input: and now at nineteen he's coming back with &uh you know like

nineteen


Input: He also had a lot of different boyfriends during her lifetime


Input: anyway to make a long story short she had her wedding also


Input: but hers we did like %um a buffet


Input: so I was really nervous about that because when did we ever do a buffet


Input: so we rented the tables and chairs again


Input: and we rented all the beautiful dishes


Input: yeah


Input: But we set up the buffet


Input: we bought like these really neat


Input: you know like they're


Input: Well we saved them because you can wash them


Input: they're made out of plastic


Input: but they look like silver trays


Input: uh-huh


Input: yeah


Input: So we bought all different shapes and sizes


Input: and we put out the salads and the meats and all different kinds that


Input: we had %um little cocktail hot dogs


Input: and we had chicken legs


Input: and we had schnitzels


Input: oh and they made a beautiful basket with breads you know everything falling out on the table


Input: you know those kind of things


Input: no


Input: wow


Input: No


Input: it was beautiful


Input: it also came out really nice


Input: the only thing


Input: you guys must feel so old that you have married children already


Input: yeah


Input: we do feel old


Input: and it was beautiful


Input: Ramona's was nicer because they had a great band and everybody was that

Ramona


Input: you know like usually in a wedding there's no room to dance


Input: but the whole parking lot was for dancing


Input: and on the grass was where we sat


Input: wow


Input: uh-huh


Input: so it was like as if you would've seen you know dance festival because there was like a circle of men a circle of girls a circle of her friends a circle of his friends because there was enough room the kids had a circle that you could have like five six different circles all over the place


Input: oh my gosh


Input: it was beautiful


Input: and Ta'al's


Input: what happened


Input: you know that Rachel was really worried that people won't dance for her be happy for her

Rachel


Input: I don't know why


Input: that was ridiculous because everyone was just as happy


Input: but her band they got stuck somewhere


Input: and their %um


Input: something with the electric equipment


Input: it didn't come


Input: so we had to get from us the amplifiers


Input: and ours are terrible


Input: %mm oy


Input: they couldn't hear anything


Input: so So some people got really you know


Input: just they didn't dance


Input: and she was really upset


Input: I said Rachel why did you even bother paying them

Rachel


Input: Well that's true


Input: getting this really great group


Input: and even if we would've known they were stuck so call the kibbutz


Input: we would've sent the car to go get it


Input: right


Input: oh gosh


Input: so that was bad news


Input: but other than that


Input: so anybody else engaged


Input: not yet


Input: the rest are young


Input: well that whole class that whole first


Input: no


Input: but there was only those two girls Ta'al from the first class

two

Ta'al

first


Input: Ramona from the second

Ramona

second


Input: now these other kids just finished high school


Input: like &'s oldest daughter is going to the army next week or two weeks

next week

two weeks


Input: wow


Input: but doesn't she have a son who's older


Input: yeah


Input: her son is still in the army


Input: uh-huh


Input: no


Input: but he's not engaged yet


Input: I think boys wait a little longer


Input: mhm


Input: yeah maybe


Input: Is Liat still going with that guy?

Liat


Input: Unbelievable.


Input: yeah


Input: things are g-


Input: %eh %eh thank God


Input: really very very happy.


Input: Very nice.


Input: great


Input: what's with you?


Input: %uh, let's see,


Input: well I'm still hanging out at Westinghouse.

Westinghouse


Input: yeah.


Input: I have your hat.


Input: I wear your hat all the time.


Input: oh goo-


Input: I thought you know it's a good hat man.


Input: I sent that to you with all %uh good intents.


Input: I hope you appreciate it.


Input: I do.


Input: I wear it all the time.


Input: okay.


Input: %uh %uh I hope I have %um a picture of myself when I %uh had reserves. you know the other month.


Input: uh-huh.


Input: I took a picture %uh with me


Input: and I hope it comes out.


Input: I'll send it to you.


Input: Thank you very much.


Input: %um


Input: If it doesn't I'll take another picture.


Input: Let's see %uh


Input: Go ahead.


Input: Well I'm still working there you know


Input: and %uh I'm on a pretty good project.


Input: Right.


Input: a long term %uh next generation %uh fighter plane.


Input: Really?


Input: So that's %uh kind of good experience I guess.


Input: uh-huh.


Input: And %uh Westinghouse supposedly is making a bid to buy the %uh C B S broadcasting network.

Westinghouse


Input: I thought they bought them already.


Input: Well, you know, it takes months to close a deal


Input: so there's -- %ah. -- lots of speculation -- Right. -- that they'll have to sell the %uh electronics division in order to do that.


Input: and what would happen with you?


Input: I guess we'd be sold to another company and see what happens.


Input: I don't know.


Input: mhm.


Input: I'm not too concerned about it though


Input: but it's a possibility.


Input: But you have a senior position there.


Input: Well, I suppose so.


Input: But, you know. They don't really think of it that way


Input: they just look at the numbers how many people they want and how many people they have.


Input: It's just a business.


Input: Right.


Input: they just get rid of what they don't want.


Input: uh-huh.


Input: But %uh that's still going pretty well.


Input: %huh


Input: nothing really new with the house or anything


Input: We've had some interesting incidents with wasps that have %uh been invading the neighborhood.


Input: they built a nest in my rafters of my house and busted through.


Input: But I told you about that, I think.


Input: I got a in the mail.


Input: yeah.


Input: So that


Input: Well I wanted to ask you what's with the school?


Input: The schools are extremely expensive.


Input: I'm going broke basically doing that.


Input: And I don't know how to %uh handle that.


Input: But how come they don't help you?


Input: It doesn't make a difference.


Input: you're still going to go broke whether they help you or not.


Input: They're not going to let you run a profit when you're on scholarship.


Input: if you have two thousand dollars at the end of the year they're not going to say oh well %uh I guess you can have that.

two thousand dollars

the end of the year


Input: They're going to make you pay everything.


Input: Wait a minute


Input: I'm talking about


Input: wait


Input: wait fir-


Input: I'm talking about your schooling.


Input: My schooling?


Input: I thought you meant the kids' school.


Input: My schooling?


Input: yeah.


Input: I don't know.


Input: I put it on hold all the time.


Input: took a course last semester


Input: I haven't signed up yet for the fall


Input: It's a lot of stress.


Input: It's a lot of stress.


Input: trying to


Input: you know you put out a lot of money


Input: and you have to work really hard to get it back.


Input: Right.


Input: there's not necessarily any benefit to it either.


Input: So


Input: %hm.


Input: sorry I was talking about the kids' school.


Input: Right


Input: the kids. yeah


Input: R J told me how much -- yeah. -- it costs.


Input: But meanwhile -- It's a lot of money. -- she doesn't know how much you pay.


Input: I don't know why that is.


Input: I think what we pay


Input: %um %mm we have to %uh


Input: %uh for two kids it cost about two hundred dollars apiece.

two


Input: uh-huh?


Input: And then for %um the taxes and everything else maybe if it costs %uh a year %um maybe %uh seven hundred dollars a kid.

seven hundred dollars


Input: okay.


Input: That's total everything.


Input: Pretty much.


Input: yeah.


Input: Pretty much.


Input: So we're paying about eight times that.

eight


Input: No about five times that.

five


Input: yeah


Input: five times that

five


Input: No, actually, %ah we're paying six times that.

six


Input: I'm paying four thousand two hundred dollars a kid. %uh Or more.

four thousand two hundred dollars


Input: Right.


Input: Right.


Input: But then you could also look into the other part. the tax bracket


Input: yeah.


Input: here f- %uh


Input: yeah


Input: forty - five


Input: forty - five, actually with all the other taxes that are going on here

forty - five


Input: the first job %uh I pay forty - five percent -- mhm. -- my salary.

first

forty - five percent


Input: It goes to taxes.


Input: And then with all of my second job, it already comes out to fifty - five percent of that.

fifty - five percent


Input: %mm %mm %mm.


Input: Plus the taxes.


Input: Unbelievable.


Input: That's incredible.


Input: I remember I got the first paycheck

first


Input: yeah


Input: I pretty much knew that's what the statistics were.


Input: Right.


Input: As soon as you get the paycheck and you see the before tax income and you say wow finally you're able to get up to a decent number and then you look at the bottom


Input: and you say what is this.


Input: You put it into your little pocket calculator --


Input: -- you say they're taking fifty - five percent

fifty - five percent


Input: says fifty - five percent.

fifty - five percent


Input: I say what country -- -- in their right mind takes fif-


Input: what about %eh trying to encourage the populace to go to work and to save more, to earn more.


Input: %uh they don't care.


Input: But you still like it there?


Input: Fifty - five

Fifty - five


Input: But yo-


Input: yeah,


Input: because you're able


Input: You're still


Input: %hm?


Input: It's great.


Input: It's great.


Input: We enjoy it.


Input: The kids are happy.


Input: Having a wonderful time.


Input: yeah.


Input: And %um even with all the political nonsense that goes on here you still feel that we're %uh %uh building the place in a very small way.


Input: And also the community.


Input: we love it here.


Input: Well I'm sure you do.


Input: It's a great community.


Input: yeah.


Input: yeah.


Input: It's a nice place.


Input: It's a very nice place.


Input: And I spoke to someone the other day %uh %uh about you.


Input: oh yeah?


Input: Plenty of jobs.


Input: Are you serious?


Input: Because you know what the problem is


Input: there's a guy who's working with me now who's an Israeli

Israeli


Input: and he's active.


Input: Don't believe them.


Input: What are they all liars?


Input: I mean, what's the story here?


Input: You're i-


Input: Yes.


Input: First of all, Israeli who is living in America -- yeah. -- has to justify himself.

First

Israeli

America


Input: So that's what he's going to do.


Input: I suppose so


Input: because man he's just like one thing after the next.


Input: you're into software, right?


Input: yeah.


Input: You know that guy Gordon %uh Go-

Gordon


Input: %uh %uh I don't want to mention his name.


Input: David Gordon?

David Gordon?


Input: No.


Input: oh


Input: oh I know


Input: the other guy who au-


Input: Right


Input: yeah


Input: the


Input: Ri-


Input: mhm


Input: That he said there's absolutely no problem.


Input: No problem.


Input: %hm %hm.


Input: He said any kind of job at a very very high salary. %uh with %uh the experience that %uh you have is absolutely no problem.


Input: yeah,


Input: so what am I waiting for?


Input: Do you be b-


Input: %huh?


Input: So what am I waiting for?


Input: Where does he live,


Input: in your community?


Input: yeah.


Input: You still building


Input: there's no housing available though there?


Input: %uh, housing is %uh right now %uh %uh %uh rentals.


Input: Only rentals?


Input: I wouldn't %uh ren-


Input: %uh you could buy


Input: but I wouldn't suggest it right now.


Input: But they have rentals?


Input: yeah.


Input: And what do they rent it at?


Input: You want to ge- %ah %ah %ah


Input: let's see


Input: you can get a-


Input: Just a ex-


Input: For %uh a %uh nice apartment you can


Input: house like my size is


Input: the house I have -- mhm. -- would go for about five hundred dollars %uh five fifty a month.

about five hundred dollars

five fifty


Input: Wow that's great.


Input: Right.


Input: So you can work down to a small apartment yeah %um which wo- %um probably go for about %uh three %uh hundred and fifty dollars.

three %uh hundred and fifty dollars


Input: and where are most of these jobs located?


Input: %uh


Input: Some of these Hertzolia

Hertzolia


Input: Hertzolia

Hertzolia


Input: yeah.


Input: That's not so bad.


Input: Right


Input: Tel Aviv Hertzolia

Tel Aviv Hertzolia


Input: Even now they opened up a lot of new roads now they were building since you were here.


Input: uh-huh


Input: But %ah they were building while you were here.


Input: Right.


Input: %um and you can also


Input: Audrey said she got to Tel Aviv the other day in like forty - five minutes

Audrey

Tel Aviv

forty - five minutes


Input: Wow. With the traffic and everything?


Input: with yeah the traffic


Input: there was no traffic until she got right there to %uh yeah Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv


Input: %mm %mm %mm


Input: So yeah


Input: it's a


Input: But you're talking about jobs in good places, good solid companies developing companies who %um


Input: the thing just for the fun of it then %uh


Input: You know how I feel that


Input: yeah


Input: little Liz has her own reasons for you know being in America.

Liz

America


Input: You should feel comfortable staying there,


Input: just for the fun %uh %ah send me %uh %ah a resume


Input: okay. I'll do that.


Input: And I'll just pass it on just to get an idea of how much you may be able to make.


Input: That sounds okay


Input: yeah.


Input: I think that's a excellent idea.


Input: %um, I know your wife doesn't believe me


Input: but %uh we think about you guys like continuously.


Input: and it really %uh makes my heart ache.


Input: But %uh


Input: yeah


Input: until like you find something that isn't stressful and not boring.


Input: yeah


Input: that's the main two combinations right?

two


Input: yeah.


Input: Not stressful and not boring


Input: yeah.


Input: Well it's like I have no problems with secretarial work


Input: okay that's what fitted in to that category because if you are a busy enough secretary you know %eh %mm. you don't get bored because you are always doing something different


Input: and if your employer is a relatively decent human being you know two if's there

two


Input: mhm.


Input: but you get no respect


Input: I mean oh you're a secretary


Input: and the pay is pretty crummy


Input: well it's pretty much the same as what I'm getting you know %um depending upon where you work and all


Input: but you know it's like that's no answer either


Input: so I've just been toying with this idea of going back to school and getting a computer science degree so I can always be gainfully employed.


Input: But anyway,


Input: and you can think about that pregnancy thing


Input: oh yeah


Input: that pregnancy thing


Input: yeah


Input: that


Input: do the


Input: Maybe there's your hormones calling.


Input: yeah


Input: well no


Input: the funny thing is it's like ten years ago I would've said oh yeah that was what I really wanted to be doing is having a baby you know


Input: but like at this point in time it's kind of like we're going to do it because if we don't do it %uh %eh you know in the next year or two we'd regret it you know

in the next year

two


Input: we figure it's something we'd want to do


Input: it's not like we're doing it because we have to do it or there's peer pressure


Input: or well a %mm little peer pressure


Input: oh no no no


Input: I know exactly where you're at because I think about that too


Input: I got about like six or seven years

six

seven years


Input: I figure my body is a very slow %um yeah **maturer**


Input: you know what I mean


Input: like I didn't get my period until I was sixteen

sixteen


Input: I mean I look like about %uh %uh at least five or six years younger than I actually am

five

six years


Input: -- and I'm just starting to get my period actually now -- yeah yeah as an adult.


Input: So I kind of figure well I'm probably good until at least some time in the early forties

the early forties


Input: and I could probably go a little longer than that


Input: I know there's a risk and all that bullshit


Input: yeah.


Input: but %um yeah I think about that too because it's like I mean I kind of like the way things are going in the total lack of responsibility.


Input: I know


Input: well I mean that's the thing


Input: kids are cute and all that


Input: and we %mm slept until noon

noon


Input: we got up about ten and was like oh we have to get out of bed played with the cats fell back to sleep

about ten


Input: okay I mean we're talking total slackers


Input: %mm


Input: and I thought gee you know if we had a kid we couldn't do this you know


Input: and


Input: %mm


Input: No


Input: you got to be focused on that


Input: and I mean there's a lots of other things that


Input: I mean as far as like living situation I was feeling kind of settled you know like -- Right. I'm not going to be like traipsing around


Input: but I mean I could say that for the next five or even eight or maybe -- yeah. -- ten years alright

five

eight

ten years


Input: even if I could project that far which I really can't


Input: yeah


Input: but I mean you got a kid you can't do fucking ten years w- --

ten years


Input: I know.


Input: -- it's like cool I think I'll go off to the Orient and start like bouncing from country country.

Orient


Input: I know


Input: well and I mean okay Emory wants to get his doctorate

Emory


Input: so we'll know next Spring if he can get at least accepted into the program which hopefully -- %mm. -- you know


Input: and then there's four or five years doing the damn work

four

five years


Input: and %mm. He's crazy


Input: he wants it


Input: that's fine


Input: he can do it


Input: no problem


Input: but %um that sort of ties us up here although we like the place


Input: we're in no hurry to leave it


Input: yeah.


Input: and that would be good


Input: But then you know what if he could get a position overseas again which is something both of us have said would be pretty darn good because -- %mm. -- %um you know after coming back from Spain from those two and half years it wasn't so much an adjustment to the way things were

those two and half years


Input: it's just asking the question gee do we really like %um the way things are over here with the lifestyle the nine to five kind of thing

nine

five


Input: I mean I'm really in the nine to five thing more so than he is

nine

five


Input: you know he should be there by oh oh well let's say eight thirty to nine

eight thirty

nine


Input: but yeah


Input: he doesn't care when


Input: well okay


Input: %um and his professor is obviously %uh %uh a great person to work for


Input: so I'm envious


Input: but %um whatever


Input: you know I'm caught up %mm. -- in it


Input: and I don't like it you know


Input: too many days I'm working and eating at my desk at about twelve o'clock

about twelve o'clock


Input: and I'm thinking %mm. This is crazy you know


Input: in Spain %uh we had this break

Spain


Input: and you sat


Input: you talked to people you know


Input: you enjoyed your food


Input: you relaxed -- %mm. -- you know


Input: and it's a fairly productive nation right you know


Input: What's going on here?


Input: yeah


Input: I mean they both have the advantages and disadvantages


Input: what you have to do is concentrate on the advantages in what ever place you're in -- mhm -- and think about the disadvantages of the place that you're not in.


Input: yeah


Input: Otherwise you go nuts right?


Input: That's true,


Input: yeah.


Input: yeah.


Input: I know Laura tried to

Laura


Input: %uh because we have email and so she sent me a letter back saying you know remember how crowded the transportation is and %uh what else -- %mm. how expensive everything is


Input: and %uh you know I remember those things of course you know --


Input: And work you know possibilities were a lot more limited


Input: True.


Input: and the language you know yeah. constantly like kind of


Input: like I mean those could be considered positive things as well


Input: yeah


Input: but I mean you mind as well think of them in a negative vie- rather than


Input: mhm sure


Input: They just like worrying over them.


Input: Well you know and that's why it helps to have kind of a glimpse into the future right?


Input: And that's how we got to -- %mm. -- Spain in the first place is we said we wanted to live abroad and we would try to do it you know as teachers

Spain

first


Input: and it turned out that way because -- %mm. -- we had this idea of


Input: and I really feel that that's important


Input: and so what I'm having an idea of now is


Input: okay you know Emory works on his doctorate

Emory


Input: it takes about five or six years

five

six years


Input: we have the kid probably


Input: he gets a research position somewhere in France or in Spain %um

France

Spain


Input: and then we move over there


Input: and you know I take care of the kid and do some you know little day labor whatever you know


Input: we'll see


Input: %mm.


Input: %um and we have relatively mellow life for who knows five or ten years

five

ten years


Input: and then we take it from there.


Input: yeah


Input: because even like you know I mean all that stuff right is all so subject to whatever change in the weather that happens to be right?


Input: mhm.


Input: oh I know


Input: I know


Input: and it's like you know what I think because I get the same as you


Input: like some days it's just kind of like you know what the hell am I doing not with my life but ge-


Input: but I mean just like where do I get the animal just you know to do anything you know


Input: I just lay in bed and dream for the whole day easily


Input: yeah


Input: I know.


Input: Well I know


Input: I know what you're saying


Input: I feel there's sort of a line to cross too between really planning it out and worry and stressing over it because for a while a couple months back there I was thinking in terms of oh gosh you know can we ever afford a house


Input: %mm.


Input: and then we sat down and sort of looked at it financially and said is this what we really want to be worrying about right now


Input: and you know I realize no


Input: yeah absolutely.


Input: and so you know you can sort of focus too much on the future


Input: or I know I have this tendency to do that.


Input: And miss the present completely


Input: I mean miss like you know the smell of the goddamn onions frying in the pan yeah. yeah yeah. you know and each little


Input: I mean it's like as far as I'm concerned there's like no pleasure that's as intense as the one that you are experiencing at that moment you know


Input: you can think about what something might be like or reminisce about the past


Input: but like when you're there in that moment it's


Input: I mean everything else just kind of like


Input: it's almost like time doesn't exist. yeah. You know


Input: yeah


Input: Well I know one of the best moments I can recall in these past two months is

these past two months


Input: okay I get to work a little bit late which is common


Input: and they don't really care since I'm an hourly you know


Input: you have to be within a certain time frame


Input: %mm.


Input: and so everyone else is parked.


Input: I'm way out there in the parking lot closer to where the trees are


Input: and you know I close the door


Input: I just take a deep breath as I go okay another day


Input: and I hear the birds singing --


Input: yeah.


Input: and I just stop for a minute and listen to the birds


Input: and it sort of cheers me up


Input: you know I realize what a minute okay


Input: in that nasty sterile office where the windows don't even open --


Input: %eh %um I will be for the next eight hours or so

next eight hours


Input: but out here there still is some life going on


Input: and just sort of cheers me up to know that


Input: okay


Input: I can come back to it you know


Input: So that's


Input: yeah


Input: in that moment I mean nobody is going to like interfere with that at all.


Input: There you are you and the birds you know


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: yup


Input: hey we can find good Spanish wine over here speaking of the moment you know

Spanish


Input: oh yeah


Input: And every once in a while you know I can remember just being back %um with people or eating some place you know in Barcelona

Barcelona


Input: and %uh so it brings me back


Input: but


Input: I still haven't gone to that fresh French restaurant by your house

French


Input: %um


Input: I'm like dying to go there


Input: You mean the one right next to the apartment


Input: yeah yeah yeah


Input: Well it's not French

French


Input: it's just gourmet


Input: it's gourmet catalon --


Input: oh it's not


Input: oh I thought it was Fre-


Input: %ah really


Input: yeah yeah


Input: Well even better.


Input: save it for a special occasion you know


Input: and you know you might need a reservation too


Input: yeah %um


Input: yeah


Input: I will


Input: I should have some visitors


Input: and my family's planning on coming this summer


Input: so I'll take them there and this fondue place I wanted to take them to also.


Input: yeah yeah


Input: Is the one over in Gracia that

Gracia


Input: it's kind of on a corner I think


Input: I think I


Input: %uh


Input: no


Input: there's a couple places in Gracia that I've been going to

Gracia


Input: uh-huh.


Input: But %uh there's one in the %um Bario Gottigo

Bario Gottigo


Input: actually it's on the other side of Leotana %huh. Like down over by the Bornillo

Leotana


Input: okay.


Input: And I've only eaten there once alright


Input: but I've been in a million times because every time I pass with somebody I have to show them the place.


Input: uh-huh.


Input: Actually you know I know where I'm going to go


Input: I have a friend my friend from England

England


Input: I don't remember if I told you about her


Input: she's my old %um roommate mhm. From Oviato

Oviato


Input: and she's coming


Input: she got a job down here


Input: she's coming on Friday to live

Friday


Input: mhm


Input: And %ah I


Input: this is like the perfect


Input: because when we lived in Oviato we used to go to this fondue place all the time

Oviato


Input: that would be the perfect place to take her when she gets her.


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: well I'm glad to hear that you got a job that you like and %uh %um think that you were able to stay


Input: I was a little bit worried at first you know when you got back there because the money would run out probably in April or so

April


Input: and you know


Input: yeah


Input: And I mean I knew I would get a job


Input: and after I just stopped thinking about it I just thought well fuck it


Input: I am going


Input: it's like inevitable


Input: and I want something


Input: I have to get something


Input: and I will


Input: uh-huh


Input: %um %huh


Input: But I just thought that you know I'll get a job


Input: and at this point if I get desperate I'll just have to take anything


Input: yeah.


Input: And the fact that I like kind of fell into something that's Fairly sweet


Input: I mean %eh in the beginning everything kind of starts out nice


Input: but I'm changing my attitude to the point where I'm not going to get stressed out about it too much.


Input: I'm not going to try to change anything


Input: Good


Input: I'm going to go in there


Input: I'm going to do a nice job


Input: I'm going to have a good time uh-huh. you know


Input: and I'm not going to


Input: I mean it's not the same


Input: I'm either


Input: like from working with kids


Input: I mean that was like you know my career for like eight years

like eight years


Input: mhm.


Input: But this is you know more like


Input: it's nice


Input: it's really nice


Input: Well and you can always go back to that if you wanted to you know working at least in the States


Input: or maybe eventually once you have your residency yeah you can work in some place in Spain too with l- %ah

Spain


Input: yeah


Input: yeah,


Input: I don't have a big draw for it right now


Input: if anything like I've always wanted to have like a bar or a restaurant


Input: I mean it takes tons of money


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: me too


Input: well


Input: well


Input: But like I'd love to


Input: That's why I want to win the lottery first though Or to have enough background money to set that kind of thing up


Input: but %um well


Input: yeah


Input: well %um good


Input: and so you're probably not going to come back Christmas which is cool

Christmas


Input: Emory was telling me that


Input: so


Input: yeah


Input: and I probably won't


Input: %eh %eh if there's anything that you think we should be %um working for let us know


Input: oh I don't know


Input: I don't know


Input: it's too difficult


Input: %uh the thing with the Golan to give it back not to give it back I don't know

Golan


Input: everybody has a different opinion


Input: we've got cousins living there


Input: beautiful beautiful home


Input: and


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: I don't know


Input: one half their mind is thinking should they pack the suitcases


Input: and the other half is should we add on another room for the new baby you know


Input: %eh it's awful


Input: yeah


Input: it's a crazy crazy


Input: it is


Input: Well what can you do


Input: it's a terrible thing


Input: I spoke to your mother in May because I wanted to know if you were coming or one of the kids are coming out

May

one


Input: No


Input: I didn't yet


Input: I had a summer job


Input: I worked


Input: yeah


Input: well I just finished work yesterday


Input: it was a nine week course

nine week


Input: it started in July and ended yesterday

July

yesterday


Input: she said


Input: yeah


Input: oh oh nice


Input: Now I have a month's vacation for Rosh Hashanah and everything

Rosh Hashanah


Input: and after Sukkoth we start our new class

Sukkoth


Input: so oh very good yeah that's a good idea My summer vacation starts now


Input: oh that's good


Input: So yeah


Input: I have about a month off

about a month


Input: that's good


Input: %eh it's not too late that I called


Input: No no no no not at all %eh


Input: oh good


Input: Good


Input: there's something else I was in the middle


Input: and I meant to do it weeks a-


Input: I'm sending a big information and letter to Simon Perez yeah because I heard him say on the radio weeks ago yeah that I mea-

Simon Perez


Input: I don't know if I should really say this


Input: you know it's really nothing


Input: but


Input: oh well were being


Input: no no


Input: Well maybe it's politics


Input: maybe we shouldn't talk politics


Input: %uh it's environmental politics


Input: it's not %uh politics though


Input: %um he said that Is- Israel is such a highly I knew that I don't know I %uh advanced technical country that if there's something good they're going to use it

Israel


Input: and he mentioned the hormones for the milk yeah oh yeah that was a big thing he- no there was a big thing here about the milk that they put silicon in the milk here or something there was a big thing where they were


Input: it's hormones to make the cows give more


Input: oh oh oh no


Input: that's something different


Input: yes


Input: and it's terrible


Input: it's a terrible horrible thing


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: when he says we'll use it you know my heart went down to the floor because we're fighting here oh I didn't hear that very much against it because it's such a bad thing


Input: against


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: I didn't hear that


Input: It makes the cows sick


Input: you get all the bacteria


Input: you get the sickness


Input: and


Input: oh jeez I didn't know


Input: I didn't even know that here


Input: and now I'm not going to drink the milk over here


Input: No no no


Input: I don't know if they're using it yet


Input: I don't know if they are


Input: but it wouldn't be bad tha-


Input: they're called growth hormone


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: I know


Input: I've heard


Input: I think they do that to the chickens


Input: I hear they do the chickens


Input: they want the


Input: yeah


Input: oh they do it here you know


Input: it's ap-


Input: I'm getting into a subject which I really didn't intend


Input: but in Canada they won't do it

Canada


Input: no no


Input: Well a lot of people don't eat meat anymore because of you know all these objections and all


Input: they've stopped %uh


Input: it's true


Input: it's true


Input: it


Input: Israelis don't eat that much meat anyway

Israelis


Input: it's more we eat fruit vegetables an- yeah yeah stuff


Input: nobody really eats steaks anymore


Input: like I grew up on steaks all the time from Sam's Supermarket you know all the

Sam's Supermarket


Input: yeah


Input: from Sam's Supermark-


Input: uh-huh


Input: yeah


Input: jeez %uh the last time he had a steak was I don't know months ago


Input: we don't even eat steaks anymore


Input: but duh %eh in America too they don't eat as much do they

America


Input: %uh no


Input: because for heart the fat is supposed by very bad


Input: yes


Input: Hello


Input: oh yeah


Input: yeah


Input: you said people are not


Input: no


Input: the red meat is suffering I guess


Input: I noticed that last time I was home


Input: but I don't eat any either


Input: so


Input: yeah


Input: I know it's not a good idea


Input: I


Input: but Canada doesn't use that junk


Input: I mean and they tell us I think Europe won't buy from us because they don't want the hormones with stuff in it

Europe


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: I know


Input: I know


Input: it's %uh


Input: but we're using it naturally


Input: Well


Input: so everything you kn-


Input: I tell you it breaks my heart when I see them following that


Input: they think everything is so wonderful


Input: if there's some


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: I know


Input: they take the good and the bad all the


Input: and that's t-


Input: yeah


Input: oh it's pitiful


Input: that makes me very very sad


Input: you know oh it's %eh


Input: very sad


Input: and even the Russians they come over

Russians


Input: and I know I can see the attitude %ah well that of course they know for ins-


Input: he's working in a neighborhood association like on funds


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: on grants


Input: he does a wonderful job


Input: and they help him


Input: oh I think he wasn't working when Holly was here

Holly


Input: I think he wasn't working


Input: he wasn't working over yeah oh that's good that he three and half years

three and half years


Input: but this is parttime


Input: but it's very involving


Input: it's very exciting


Input: oh that's nice


Input: and I thought that the people line up to see him


Input: and it's about getting help with housing and food stamps and everything


Input: yeah


Input: and a lady said you know my husband died and old lady


Input: I said oh I'm sorry


Input: she says I really thought United States that you don't die you know

United States


Input: and I knew that underlying it they really believe that because if it's so wonderful


Input: yeah


Input: they know everyone dies


Input: but underneath they feel maybe you don't die until you're very very old


Input: but they don't believe that so many people die in the United States because it's so wonderful

the United States


Input: oh wow I don't know where they got that idea from


Input: yeah


Input: but you see how it is


Input: jeez


Input: so everybody has these wrong conceptions


Input: I know


Input: I know %eh


Input: %eh %uh it's %uh pitiful


Input: but


Input: oh well


Input: yeah


Input: I'm su-


Input: Holly is %uh busy with all her No that's good now that's nice cook things


Input: and she's going to teach


Input: yeah


Input: she had a good time sure


Input: she'll come back and visit and all


Input: she had a good


Input: oh she's lost too


Input: oh she misses right now %eh %eh for Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah


Input: yes


Input: she says oh on the kibbutz everybody would go out and have the meal under the stars together the first night


Input: yeah


Input: they have th-


Input: yeah


Input: that's right


Input: that's right


Input: and you know it's just


Input: so she misses


Input: well you know %uh you know it's like New Year's %uh

New Year's


Input: everything is closed and all in America

America


Input: you don't feel the holidays because everybody's busy doing


Input: and here


Input: yes


Input: it's not Israel although in

Israel


Input: Well you live in a very Jewish sec-

Jewish


Input: I'm wi-


Input: yeah


Input: here you do


Input: you see him


Input: yeah


Input: So it's different


Input: but in Hudson oh we used to have to miss school

Hudson


Input: that's right


Input: and the teachers used to give us tests on those days just to be mean


Input: and we used to miss the tests and everything


Input: and


Input: I know


Input: Passover time we used to be embarrassed bringing matzos to school and everything

Passover


Input: and here I mean You know they don't know any of those feelings at all you know


Input: I know


Input: I know


Input: I know


Input: it's th-


Input: it's very different


Input: so


Input: I know


Input: is it something you know you remember Fred Allen and Irene?

Fred Allen


Input: no I don't


Input: %uh they're just names to me really


Input: I'm sorry


Input: but they're just names to me


Input: I don't know them


Input: yeah


Input: oh because you were %ah you know


Input: yeah


Input: they had a farm when they were first married which was like nineteen forty eight

nineteen forty eight


Input: yeah?


Input: and then they moved away


Input: hello


Input: %uh oh


Input: yeah


Input: I'm here


Input: yeah


Input: So I think I still got five or ten minutes here as far as I know

five

ten minutes


Input: I'm looking at my


Input: Are you timed


Input: or


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: Well keep talking until we hang up


Input: it's nice talking to you


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: %um


Input: So what about the Allens?

Allens


Input: then they moved away to Middletown

Middletown


Input: he was in the girls'


Input: do you remember the girls' reformatory in Hudson

Hudson


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: %um


Input: It was right across the street from my Aunt Seal's house

Seal


Input: oh she lived there?


Input: On Worth Avenue I th-

Worth Avenue


Input: She did on Wor-


Input: yeah like Bessie lived on Worth Avenue

Bessie

Worth Avenue


Input: yeah


Input: %um


Input: yeah


Input: %um well it was %um my Uncle Ralph's

Ralph


Input: it was my father's %eh you know half brother


Input: right


Input: right


Input: I remember


Input: yeah


Input: Mitnics the Mitnics


Input: yes


Input: yes


Input: Well what about the Allens

Allens


Input: what was their connection to that


Input: Well so originally he had come back from the army


Input: they got married


Input: he graduated Cornell agricultural

Cornell


Input: had to be a farmer


Input: so about maybe two three years I don't know how many years they had a dairy farm

two

three years


Input: and you know how rough


Input: they were slaves


Input: they couldn't go anywhere do anything


Input: yeah


Input: they had to stay on the farm because it's a small you know


Input: I didn't know any of this


Input: yeah


Input: but that's a lot like you


Input: you're much younger than me


Input: I was born in fifty

fifty


Input: oh so you're much


Input: I'm born in nineteen thirty nine

nineteen thirty nine


Input: so you're


Input: in nineteen fifty

nineteen fifty


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: there's a difference


Input: yeah


Input: Yes


Input: so they left maybe before you were born


Input: yes


Input: yeah


Input: could b-


Input: or just about the time you were born they left Hudson

Hudson


Input: yeah


Input: not the-


Input: So then they went to Middletow-


Input: %um then he came %um for the girls' school


Input: he became


Input: since he didn't at farming


Input: couldn't be managed


Input: yeah


Input: he became


Input: he had been a captain in the army over difficult troops yeah So that he got into the correctional facility business


Input: I mean he got a job


Input: the girls' training school there needed someone


Input: and he got into that


Input: And he remained the rest of his life


Input: oh


Input: so after that they moved to Middletown

Middletown


Input: and then they went to South Portright upstate near Onianta

South Portright

Onianta


Input: yeah yeah and how shall I say he rebuilt a boys' training school


Input: and it was so successful they named it after him now


Input: oh I didn't know any of this


Input: yeah


Input: the Fred All-

Fred


Input: yeah


Input: he's very very %um prominent in that field in the correc-


Input: no no


Input: he did a wonderful job


Input: in fact he had the best average of rehabilitation in the country for that age oh is that nice which is not too great


Input: but he had the best average in the country


Input: yeah


Input: what's he doing now


Input: yeah


Input: they're a wonderful couple


Input: Irene died

Irene


Input: that's Bessie's

Bessie


Input: yeah


Input: %uh do you remember %uh Lenny Kocherstein and

Lenny Kocherstein


Input: of course


Input: Lenny I know

Lenny


Input: and Gloria and Bessie Kocherstein I remember

Gloria

Bessie Kocherstein


Input: yeah


Input: Lenny you said he was the husband

Lenny


Input: yeah


Input: alright


Input: it was Lenny's yeah %uh older sister

Lenny


Input: so she was her fi-


Input: she's a little older


Input: like I don't know how many years older than him


Input: like one or two years older than him

one

two years


Input: oh no


Input: I just remember Lenny and Gloria

Lenny

Gloria


Input: no I don't remember meeting her


Input: yeah


Input: because Lenny was the youngest I think

Lenny


Input: no


Input: yeah


Input: well Lenny lived right in Hudson and his kids and all

Lenny

Hudson


Input: we grew up with his kids


Input: yeah


Input: right


Input: right


Input: So him you know I knew


Input: yeah


Input: he used to work in our store sometimes even as a butcher


Input: yes


Input: yes


Input: I remember that


Input: and they used to have %uh %uh %uh deli counter like in a drugstore once


Input: I was a waitress


Input: I worked for them once one summer


Input: %uh yeah


Input: they always had the catering and all that


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: with some kind of


Input: they took over %uh %uh the drug store


Input: they took over the lunch counters


Input: I remember that they gave me a summer job once


Input: right


Input: yeah


Input: they were always th-


Input: now your mother must tell you the son Wayne is now in that business

Wayne


Input: he's got a cookie subs


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: I remember when they sai-


Input: I think he's president of the synagogue too or something


Input: he's a big shot in the synagogue or something too


Input: big shot also with catering


Input: maybe


Input: I hope that place keeps up and everything because both my parents' plaques are there


Input: oh yeah


Input: tha-


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: that's nice then


Input: I hope it continues


Input: yeah


Input: I


Input: yeah


Input: of course of course


Input: so he became proud with that


Input: and he has two children who didn't live in Hudson after they were babies on the farm

two

Hudson


Input: yeah


Input: they moved away so they don't even know anybody except Pam

Pam


Input: remember %uh Pam %uh Kocherstein

Pam

Kocherstein


Input: yeah


Input: Pam

Pam


Input: %eh yeah


Input: yeah


Input: right now I think her older one is going to be Bar Mitzvahed soon


Input: oh wow oh


Input: I don't know if any


Input: little **pammy** just little **pammy** little smiley little fat little kid


Input: little little skinny


Input: yeah


Input: she was yeah skinny now n-


Input: No


Input: I remember


Input: no that was Paula was the fat one

Paula


Input: Paula Kocherstein was the fat one

Paula Kocherstein


Input: yeah


Input: now she isn't


Input: it's unbelievable


Input: oh I don't know


Input: jeez I don't know them anymore


Input: oh jeez


Input: but she's thin


Input: yeah


Input: she's got three lovely girls


Input: and she lived in Saint Louis Missouri

Saint Louis Missouri


Input: yeah


Input: yeah


Input: I heard that


Input: yeah


Input: that's right


Input: yeah


Input: %uh Pam is living near Divensinville wherever that is

Pam

Divensinville


Input: yeah


Input: that's right near Hudson

Hudson


Input: yeah


Input: that isn't too far away


Input: yeah


Input: and she has two lovely boys

two


Input: so all the kids are okay


Input: oh that's nice


Input: yeah


Input: I tried


Input: you know my mother


Input: I keep telling her what's going on in Hudson

Hudson


Input: but I don't hear all the news


Input: and I don't know exactly what


Input: no


Input: now do you remember Sandra Potswool

Sandra Potswool


Input: No


Input: I don't know her either


Input: no


Input: Jerry Kocherstein's daughter

Jerry Kocherstein's


Input: No no


Input: I don't know her either


Input: I mean I've heard the name often


Input: but I can't