"Burstein, Michael A - Reality Check" - читать интересную книгу автора (Burstein Michael A)

When David and Sarah had first been married, they had spent half a year in
Los Alamos, New Mexico, because that had been the only place David had
managed to get an appointment. He had worked for one of the theory groups
at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. But the Jewish life had been
practically nonexistent, with one tiny Jewish Center hidden between a copse
of trees and a canyon, and expensive kosher meat only available by way of
Albuquerque. David and SarahТs presence had been such a novelty in the town
that the weekly newspaper, the Los Alamos Monitor, had done a front page
article on them when they celebrated Passover.

Thank God for the appointment to MIT.

"I remember," David repeated. "I wouldnТt want us to go through that again.
EspeciallyЦ"

"Especially now that we have Yitzhak," Sarah finished. "IТm surprised you
would even agree to go for a few days."

"I did arrange to come back in time for shabbat."

"ThatТs supposed to make it better? I really donТt want you going."

"You know, Sarah, I donТt remember the ketubah I signed at our wedding
prohibiting me from going to Texas."

"ItТs just thatЦDavid, itТs already hard on me, having to stay home and
take care of Yitzhak. I feel so isolated during the day. I donТt want you
abandoning me."

"Abandoning you? What in the world brought that on?"

"IТm afraid of losing you."

"Losing me? Losing me to what?"

Sarah sighed. "To your work. I see the look you get in your eyes sometimes,
when weТre at home, and you run off to write something down on another
scrap of paper. Sometimes itТs as if youТre not completely here. What if
the reason they want you at the SSC is so big that youЦyou never come
back?"

David took his wifeТs hand. "Sarah, you know that youТre the most important
thing in the world to me."

"Am I? Sometimes I donТt feel it."

"Yes, you are," David said, looking into her eyes. "What can I do to
reassure you?"

"Hold me, David. And promise me that you wonТt take whatever they offer