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Fortinbras Armstrong

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2. A story that I have told before, but it's worth mentioning again.

Reply to goldent (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 06:58 AM

Mar 2014

I had a close friend who was a Conservative Jew. One year, he asked my why I had ashes smeared on my forehead, and I said that it was to mark Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. He said, "Well, happy Ash Wednesday."

For years we had a running joke, in which I would wish him a happy Yom Kippur and a happy Tisha B'Av; and he would wish me a happy Ash Wednesday and a happy Good Friday.

Unfortunately, he died last year, and it was not a happy day.

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A story that I have told before, but it's worth mentioning again. Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2014 #2