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LET'S GO<br />
us, that w e are<br />
But here, mortality is frighteningly real, especially when standing at the<br />
oineone you used to play in the streets w ith and wondering, if next year, it<br />
you. And 1 thought o f how I had lived in Israel when I was four and that I<br />
never had known why my parents chose to raise their children in the US. And now<br />
I think I know why. And somehow I could still see m yself standing on these same<br />
stones, holding a child in one hand and clutching m y husband with the other, silently<br />
pleading with G-d, hoping that next year, I will still be holding onto them and that it<br />
w on’t be me, putting flowers on another grave.<br />
- Jessica Hope Tam